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NEUROREGULATION AND MOTILITY

TNBS-induced inflammation modulates the function of one class of low-threshold rectal mechanoreceptors in the guinea pig

Department of Human Physiology and Centre for Neuroscience Flinders University, Bedford Park, Australia

Submitted 17 December 2007 ; accepted in final form 15 August 2008

The effects of trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS)-induced inflammation on specialized, low-threshold, slowly adapting rectal mechanoreceptors were investigated in the guinea pig. Under isoflurane anesthesia, 300 µl saline or TNBS (15 mg/ml) in 30% ethanol was instilled 7 cm from the anal sphincter. Six or 30 days later, single unit extracellular recordings were made from rectal nerve trunks in flat-sheet in vitro preparations attached to a mechanical tissue stretcher. TNBS treatment caused macroscopic ulceration of the rectal mucosa at 6 days, which fully resolved by 30 days. Muscle contractility was unaffected by TNBS treatment. At 6 days posttreatment, responses of low-threshold rectal mechanoreceptors to circumferential stretch were increased, and the proportion of afferents responding with von Frey hair thresholds 0.1 mN and mechanoreceptor excitability in response to electrical stimulation were increased in TNBS-treated tissue, suggesting increased sensitivity of the mechanotransducer. Mechanoreceptor function at 30 days posttreatment was in most cases unchanged. The inflammatory mediator prostaglandin E₂ (1 µM) activated mechanoreceptors (6 days) in conjunction with contractile activity, but capsaicin (1 µM) failed to activate mechanoreceptors. Bradykinin (1 µM) activated mechanoreceptors independently of contractile activity and responses to stretch were increased in the presence of bradykinin. Both capsaicin and bradykinin activated unidentified stretch-insensitive afferents independently of contractile activity. Mechanoreceptor function is modulated at 6 days posttreatment but not at 30 days, suggesting a moderate increase in mechanoreceptor sensitivity in inflamed tissue but not after recovery. Other unclassified stretch-insensitive afferents are responsive to inflammatory mediators and capsaicin and may be involved in aspects of visceral sensation.

pelvic afferents; rectal nerves; hypersensitivity; trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid

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