Effect of Celecoxib, a Cyclooxygenase-2-specific Inhibitor, has no Effect on Chronically Maintained Neuropathic Pain in Rats

2008 
장기간 유지된 신경병증성 통증 흰쥐에서 선택적 COX2 억제제인 Celecoxib의 진통효과 서울대학교 치의학대학원 치과마취과학교실 박은성.김현정.이민주.이지윤.신터전.서광석.염광원 배경 : 신경병증성 통증은 스테로이드, 아편유사제 등의 진통제에 잘 반응하지 않는다. 하지만 염증성 매개물질들이 신경병증성 통증의 발생에 관여한다는 보고가 있다. 특히 선택적 COX2 억제 제인 celecoxib의 신경병증성 통증에 대한 효과에 관해서 상반된 연구결과가 존재한다. 본 연구는 신경병증성 통증 모델인 척추신경 결찰모델을 이용 기계적, 냉각 이질통 및 온도감각 과민현상의 발현에 celecoxib이 미치는 영향을 관찰하여 celecoxib의 항통각효과를 확인하고자 하였다. 방법 : 30마리의 쥐를 이용 척추신경을 결찰하여 신경병증성 통증을 유도하였다 celecoxib (1, 10, 100, and 300 mg/kg)을 경구 투여하였고 총 30마리 중 12마리의 쥐에서 열, 기계적자극에 대해서 통각과민, 냉각자극에 의해 이질통이 발생하였다. 약물 투여 후 30, 60, 120, 180분 후 von Frey, 냉각자극검사, Hargreaves검사를 시행하여 쥐의 행동변화를 관찰하였다. 결과: 신경결찰 후 5일 후에 celecoxib의 용량에 관계없이 열, 기계적 자극에 의한 통각과민, 냉각 자극에 대한 이질통을 감소시키지 않았다(P > 0.05). 또한 celecoxib투여에 의한 장기간의 항 통각 효과는 관찰되지 않았다(P > 0.05). 결론 : celecoxib을 경구로 투여하였을 때 장기간 유지된 신경병증성 통증 흰쥐에서 약의 투여용 량, 투여기간에 따른 항 통각작용은 관찰되지 않았다. 따라서 조직 손상후 발생된 장기간의 신경병 증성 통증에 있어서 celecoxib은 효과가 없는 것으로 사료된다. (JKDSA 2008; 8: 29~34) ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? 핵심용어 : 이질통, Celecoxib, Cyclooxygenase-2, 통각과민, 척추신경결찰 Corresponding author: Hyun Jeong Kim, Department of Dental Anesthesiology and Dental Research Institute, Seoul National University School of Dentistry 28 Yeongeon-dong Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-768, Korea Tel: +82-2-2072-3042, Fax: +82-2-766-9427 E-mail: dentane@snu.ac.kr INTRODUCTION Neuropathic pain, characterized by spontaneous pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia, includes a multiplicity of causes (Jensen et al, 2001). To date, a lot of researches have been carried out to develop the useful animal models that can dependably give rise to a neuropathic pain-like syndrome in rodents and indicate an analgesic efficacy in human clinical approaches. For examples, chronic constriction injury (Bennett and Xie, 1988), partial sciatic nerve ligation (Seltzer et al, 1990), spinal nerve ligation (Kang et al, 2005), and lately the spared 30 대한치과마취과학회지:제 8 권 제 1 호 2008 nerve injury (Bourquin et al, 2006; Decosterd and Woolf, 2000), have been developed. Among diverse theories that describe the mechanisms of neuropathic pain, the close correlation between inflammatory responses and neuropathic pain states has been suggested (Bingham et al, 2005; Broom et al, 2004; Frisen et al, 1993; MacPherson, 2002; Tracey and Walker, 1995). Especially, local upregulation of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX2) at the lesion of peripheral nerve injury and the following release of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is closely related toperipheral sensitization, acting to change the threshold and excitability of the nociceptor peripheral terminal (McCleskey and Gold, 1999; O'Banion, 1999). On the other hand, COX2 mRNA expression is noticeably increased in the spinal cord after the injection of peripheral inflammatory stimuli such as complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) (Hay et al, 1997) and carrageenan (Ichitani et al, 1997), which means that the increase of COX2 mRNA in the spinal cord is involved in inflammatory allodynia and hyperalgesia and implies that some of the analgesic effect of COX2 inhibitors are not peripheral but central (Hay et al, 1997; Samad et al, 2001; Tegeder et al, 2001; Yaksh et al, 2001; Yamamoto and Nozaki-Taguchi, 1997). Also, COX2 protein levels in the dorsal spinal cord and thalamus (but not in the ventral spinal cord, cingulate cortex and locus coeruleus) increased significantly one day after nerve ligation, compared with those in the sham animals (Zhao et al, 2000). There have been lots of researches showing that COX2 plays a pivotal role in producing inflammatory pain. However, when it comes to in neuropathic pain models, the role of COX2 is still unclear because of various experimental settings. Therefore, the present study was carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the selective COX2 inhibitor, celecoxib (Celebrex R ), on the long maintained neuropathic nociception evoked by spinal nerve ligation using behavioral tests including von Frey, cold, and Hargreaves’ test, together. MATERIALS AND METHODS
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