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The Journal of Neuroscience, August 15, 2001, 21(16):5847-5853
The Acute Antihyperalgesic Action of Nonsteroidal,
Anti-Inflammatory Drugs and Release of Spinal Prostaglandin
E2 Is Mediated by the Inhibition of Constitutive Spinal
Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) but not COX-1
Tony L.
Yaksh1,
David
M.
Dirig1,
Charles M.
Conway1,
Camilla
Svensson1,
Z. David
Luo1, and
Peter C.
Isakson2
1 Department of Anesthesiology, University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0818, and
2 Pharmacia Corporation, Research and Development, St.
Louis, Missouri 63198
Western blots show the constitutive expression of COX-1 and COX-2
in the rat spinal dorsal and ventral horns and in the dorsal root
ganglia. Using selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenase (COX) isozymes,
we show that in rats with chronic indwelling intrathecal catheters the
acute thermal hyperalgesia evoked by the spinal delivery of substance P
(SP; 20 nmol) or NMDA (2 nmol) and the thermal hyperalgesia
induced by the injection of carrageenan into the paw are suppressed by
intrathecal and systemic COX-2 inhibitors. The intrathecal effects are
dose-dependent and stereospecific. In contrast, a COX-1 inhibitor given
systemically, but not spinally, reduced carrageenan-evoked thermal
hyperalgesia but had no effect by any route with spinal SP
hyperalgesia. Using intrathecal loop dialysis catheters, we showed that
intrathecal SP would enhance the release of prostaglandin
E2 (PGE2). This intrathecally evoked release of spinal PGE2 was diminished by systemic delivery
of nonspecific COX and COX-2-selective inhibitors, but not a
COX-1-selective inhibitor. Given at systemic doses that block SP- and
carrageenan-evoked hyperalgesia, COX-2, but not COX-1, inhibitors
reduced spinal SP-evoked PGE2 release. Thus, constitutive
spinal COX-2, but not COX-1, is an important contributor to the acute
antihyperalgesic effects of spinal as well as systemic COX-2 inhibitors.
Key words:
cyclooxygenase inhibitor; intrathecal injection; thermal
hyperalgesia; NK-1; substance P; NMDA; ibuprofen; SC-58125; SC-560
Copyright © 2001 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/01/21165847-07$05.00/0
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