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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 280: G649-G657, 2001;
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Vol. 280, Issue 4, G649-G657, April 2001

Inflammation enhances reflex and spinal neuron responses to noxious visceral stimulation in rats

T. J. Ness1 and G. F. Gebhart2

1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama 35294; and 2 Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1109

To improve understanding of sensory processes related to visceral inflammation, the effect of turpentine-induced inflammation on reflex (cardiovascular/visceromotor) and extracellularly recorded lumbosacral dorsal horn neuron responses to colorectal distension (CRD) was investigated. A 25% solution of turpentine, applied to the colorectal mucosa, produced inflammation, decreased compliance of the colonic wall, and enhanced reflex responses in unanesthetized rats within 2-6 h. At 24 h posttreatment, pressor responses to CRD (80 mmHg, 20 s) were 20% greater, and intraluminal pressures needed to evoke visceromotor reflexes were 30% lower than controls. Parallel electrophysiological experiments in spinal cord-transected, decerebrate rats demonstrated that two neuronal subgroups excited by CRD were differentially affected by turpentine administered 24 h before testing. During CRD, abrupt neurons were 70% less active and sustained neurons were 25% more active than similar neurons in controls. In summary, reflex and neuronal subgroup (sustained neurons) responses to CRD were both potentiated by chemical inflammation. This suggests that the neurophysiological basis for inflammation-induced increases in reflex responses to CRD is increased activity of this neuronal subgroup.

colorectal; nociception; turpentine; visceral hyperalgesia


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