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2024 Feb 21


Anesthesiology


38381969

µ-opioid receptor activation at the dorsal reticular nucleus shifts diffuse noxious inhibitory controls to hyperalgesia in chronic joint pain in male rats.

Authors

Pereira-Silva R, Teixeira-Pinto A, Neto FL, Martins I

Abstract

The dorsal reticular nucleus is a pain facilitatory area involved in the diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC), through opioidergic mechanisms that are poorly understood. We hypothesized that signaling of µ-opioid receptors is altered in this area at prolonged chronic inflammatory pain and that this accounts for the loss of DNIC occurring in this condition.