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Squid Have Nociceptors That Display Widespread Long-Term Sensitization and Spontaneous Activity after Bodily Injury

Robyn J. Crook, Roger T. Hanlon and Edgar T. Walters
Journal of Neuroscience 12 June 2013, 33 (24) 10021-10026; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0646-13.2013
Robyn J. Crook
1Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, and
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2Program in Sensory Physiology and Behavior, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543
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Abstract

Bodily injury in mammals often produces persistent pain that is driven at least in part by long-lasting sensitization and spontaneous activity (SA) in peripheral branches of primary nociceptors near sites of injury. While nociceptors have been described in lower vertebrates and invertebrates, outside of mammals there is limited evidence for peripheral sensitization of primary afferent neurons, and there are no reports of persistent SA being induced in primary afferents by noxious stimulation. Cephalopod molluscs are the most neurally and behaviorally complex invertebrates, with brains rivaling those of some vertebrates in size and complexity. This has fostered the opinion that cephalopods may experience pain, leading some governments to include cephalopods under animal welfare laws. It is not known, however, if cephalopods possess nociceptors, or whether their somatic sensory neurons exhibit nociceptive sensitization. We demonstrate that squid possess nociceptors that selectively encode noxious mechanical but not heat stimuli, and that show long-lasting peripheral sensitization to mechanical stimuli after minor injury to the body. As in mammals, injury in squid can cause persistent SA in peripheral afferents. Unlike mammals, the afferent sensitization and SA are almost as prominent on the contralateral side of the body as they are near an injury. Thus, while squid exhibit peripheral alterations in afferent neurons similar to those that drive persistent pain in mammals, robust changes far from sites of injury in squid suggest that persistently enhanced afferent activity provides much less information about the location of an injury in cephalopods than it does in mammals.

Introduction

Almost all animals exhibit defensive responses to noxious stimuli that cause incipient or immediate tissue injury (Kavaliers, 1988; Walters, 1994). Primary nociceptors that encode noxious stimuli have been reported in several invertebrate and vertebrate species (Smith and Lewin, 2009), but most research has focused on mammalian nociceptors because of their critical roles in normal and abnormal pain states (Basbaum et al., 2009). A distinctive property of mammalian nociceptors that plays a major role in long-lasting pain is nociceptive sensitization, often expressed after injury or inflammation as increased sensitivity of peripheral branches and sometimes by persistent generation of spontaneous activity (SA) (Gold and Gebhart, 2010; Walters, 2012). Comparison to similar phenomena in nonmammalian species may provide insight into the evolution of mechanisms that can promote pain, but outside of mammals very little is known about nociceptor sensitization (Walters and Moroz, 2009). Sensitization of peripheral branches of nociceptors has not been found in nociceptors of lower vertebrates (Ashley et al., 2007) and has been demonstrated in only two invertebrates, a leech (Pastor et al., 1996) and a gastropod mollusc, Aplysia (Billy and Walters, 1989; Illich and Walters, 1997); less direct evidence for nociceptor sensitization also exists for Drosophila (Babcock et al., 2009). SA in nociceptors persisting for days or longer after injury or inflammation has only been described in mammals (Djouhri et al., 2006; Walters, 2012).

Cephalopods have the largest and most complex brains among the invertebrates, encouraging the opinion that cephalopods may experience pain, and leading some governments to include cephalopods under animal welfare laws (Harvey-Clark, 2011). However, almost nothing is known about their nociceptive systems. Here, we show that a cephalopod—the squid Doryteuthis (Loligo) pealeii—possesses nociceptors that exhibit nociceptive alterations with interesting similarities and differences to those reported in other invertebrates and mammals.

Materials and Methods

Animal subjects, welfare considerations, and anesthesia.

Male and female adult squids were collected near Woods Hole, MA and housed in groups of 2–8 for up to 2 weeks in running seawater (17−21°C) and fed small fish (Fundulus spp.) daily. General guidelines for vertebrate animal welfare were followed (Crook and Walters, 2011; Crook et al., 2011). Animals in poor health were killed by prolonged immersion in isotonic MgCl2 solution. Sample sizes for studies of in vivo injury were limited to those needed to demonstrate large effects. Experimental injury to the fin (Fig. 1) was small relative to the size of the animal and compared with naturally occurring, survivable injuries observed by us. Injured animals exhibited normal feeding behavior and unchanged mortality rates. Before fin excision, animals were anesthetized by immersion in isotonic MgCl2 solution (Mooney et al., 2010) until chromatophores relaxed and respiratory movements ceased, then killed by decapitation and decerebration.

Injury and noxious stimulation.

In both the excised fin-nerve preparation and in vivo, four firm crushes (∼2 s each) were delivered with serrated forceps (2 mm width) to the site in Figure 1C. Crushes extended 10–15 mm into the fin. Control fins received light touch from the same forceps. In some excised fins, several 0.5 ml injections of isotonic MgCl2 solution containing Fast Green dye were made subcutaneously and intramuscularly through a 23 gauge needle at the site to be crushed. Visualization both of the dye and relaxation of cutaneous chromatophores demonstrated that the solution spread <1 cm from the injury site during the postinjury test period. Peripheral injection of isotonic MgCl2 into molluscs produces local blockade of action potentials (Crook and Walters, 2011).

Testing and extracellular recording.

Afferent spike activity was sampled at 20 kHz via a suction electrode on the fin nerve central to the excised fin (Kier et al., 1985). This is the only nerve connecting the fin to the CNS (Young, 1976). Test stimuli were delivered to medial and caudal sites on the fin (<10 mm and 45–70 mm away from the crush site, respectively; Fig. 1C), using four von Frey filaments (Stoelting), with bending forces of 0.4, 2, 10, and 100 g (3.9, 19.6, 98, 980 mN). Each was applied for ∼1.5 s, and spikes were counted during the 1 s period of maximal firing. In some experiments, thresholds for activity evoked by electrical stimulation of afferent receptive fields were determined by passing constant current pulses (1 ms) through a 1.5 mm diameter glass capillary electrode pressed gently against the skin.

Data analysis.

Counts of identified single unit spikes were made with Spike Histogram software (ADInstruments) and compared with ANOVA for independent samples or repeated measures. Post hoc comparisons used t tests with sequential Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons. Rank measures were compared with Kruskal–Wallis and post hoc Mann—Whitney U tests. Critical α values were 0.05 postcorrection. All p values are two-tailed.

Results

Squid have nociceptors

The excised squid fin (Fig. 1A) receives extensive innervation from the CNS (Fig. 1B), and afferent activity from neurons innervating the entire fin can be recorded via a suction electrode on the cut end of the fin nerve (Fig. 1C). Pressing a smooth probe against the excised fin with steadily increasing force (Fig. 1D) usually produced a progressive recruitment of single units (indicated by spikes with constant amplitude and waveform) and an increase in firing rate. The same pattern was observed when test stimuli were delivered via a series of four von Frey filaments (Fig. 1E) that deliver relatively constant forces (0.2, 4, 10, or 100 g) during bending. At the illustrated test site (Figs. 1D,E), units with smaller spike amplitudes happened to be activated by weaker stimuli than units with larger amplitudes, but no significant differences were found in amplitudes of spikes evoked in single units having low and high mechanical thresholds (n = 16 preparations).

Figure 1.
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Squid have mechanosensitive nociceptors in their fins. A, Innervation of the fin by the fin nerve, which provides the only direct communication with the brain. B, Fin nerve branches visualized by injection of air into the main trunk of the fin nerve. C, Excised fin-nerve preparation showing the recording electrode, crush injury site, and medial (M) and caudal (C) test sites on the fin, proximal and distal to the crush site, respectively. D, Extracellularly recorded activity evoked by pressing a glass probe (1.5 mm diameter) with progressively increasing force against the fin. Arrows indicate the first appearance of identified units. E, Activity at the same site evoked by application of von Frey filaments having progressively greater bending forces (indicated). Colored arrows indicate initial spikes of the same units shown in D.

Fin mechanoafferents exhibited many different spike amplitudes, but most test sites had units with medium to large spikes (10–80 μV under our recording conditions; Fig. 1D,E). Test stimulation of these sites always evoked responses from multiple units, with a mean of 5.3 ± 0.3 single units with spikes ≥ 5 μV activated at each site (n = 32 test sites in 16 preparations). Of these, one third (1.6 ± 0.3 units per site) were clearly nociceptive, being activated only by the 100 g filament (the only filament to produce clear tissue damage with repeated application). No units responded to intense heat (45−55°C), in contrast to many vertebrate nociceptors that encode noxious heat (Ashley et al., 2007; Basbaum et al., 2009). To compare action potential conduction velocities (CV) we classified single units into groups based on peak-to-peak spike amplitudes: small (<10 μV), medium (10–30 μV), and large (>30 μV). The mean (± SEM) CVs were 1.9 ± 0.2, 2.7 ± 0.3, and 3.3 ± 0.2 m/s for small, medium, and large units, respectively. We did not systematically map receptive fields of nociceptors in this study because repeated probing with force sufficient to activate nociceptive fibers produces sensitization (see below) that would confound the sensitizing alterations that were the major objective of this study. However, the receptive fields appeared small, with diameters <1 cm.

Squid nociceptors show short- and long-term sensitization after noxious stimulation

Afferent sensitization was observed during a symmetrical sequence of ascending and descending forces delivered by von Frey filaments to the fin at 5–10 s intervals (Fig. 2A). Except for the 100 g stimulus, significantly more spikes were evoked by the second application of each force than the first (n = 14, repeated-measures ANOVA, F(1,100) = 7.54, p = 0.01). This sensitization (likely caused by the two 100 g stimuli) was expressed as decreased mechanosensory threshold in nociceptors; 57% (46 of 64 units) that had only been activated by the 100 g filament during the ascending phase were activated by lower forces during the descending phase of the sequence. In contrast, only 28% of mechanoreceptors (12 of 28 units) initially requiring 2 g for activation were then activated by 0.4 g during the descending phase (p = 0.01, Fisher's exact test).

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Squid mechanoafferents show rapid sensitization after noxious stimulation of the excised fin. A, Sensitization produced by punctate noxious stimulation. When the ascending sequence of punctate forces used to identify nociceptors was followed by a descending sequence of the same forces, the second application of all but the 100 g force evoked more spikes than the first application. B, Minor crush injury increased activity evoked by the indicated filaments. Note the large units responding to lower forces 5 min after injury. C, The same injury reduced mechanosensory (left) and electrical (right) thresholds of units that had been activated solely by 100 g before crush. D, Activity evoked by repeated tests (10 g) proximal and distal to the crush (Fig. 1C) showed a rapid, prolonged increase after fin injury (arrow). Activity was measured as the total number of spikes >4 μV during the 1 s period of maximal firing. Compared with corresponding responses in control fins, evoked activity was greater in injured fins during all medial tests, and all but the 0.2 min caudal test. E, Local injection of isotonic MgCl2 solution blocked immediate activation of afferents by crush injury. Comparisons were to injections with seawater (SW) given before or after the MgCl2 solution. F, Localized injection of isotonic MgCl2 solution at the site to be crushed prevented crush-induced enhancement of activity evoked at nearby medial and distant caudal test sites. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.

We asked whether minor injury to the excised fin (n = 14) sensitizes fin nociceptors. Five minutes after injury, nociceptors close to the crush site (<10 mm away) had significant reductions in thresholds for activation both by mechanical (Mann–Whitney U, W = 8.5, p = 0.002) and by electrical test stimuli (independent samples t test, t = 3.33, df = 12, p = 0.006) delivered to the same receptive field compared with controls (n = 7, Fig. 2C), but CVs were unchanged (unpaired t test, t = 0.26, df = 31, p = 0.79, data not shown). In a separate experiment, repeated tests with a 10 g filament were delivered to both the medial and caudal test sites on the fin (Fig. 1C) for 30 min after the injury (n = 9). The total number of spikes evoked in injured fins was greater than the preinjury responses to stimulation of both the medial and caudal test sites, and greater than corresponding responses in uncrushed fins (two-factor ANOVA, F(1,40) = 25.31 p = 0.001, pairwise comparisons in Fig. 2D). Sensitization appeared within ∼1 min of injury and persisted for at least 30 min. To test whether this sensitization depended on neural activity generated by the crush at the injury site, we injected isotonic MgCl2 solution subcutaneously and intramuscularly immediately before crushing the fin within the small injected area; seawater was injected into the contralateral fin (n = 5). The MgCl2 suppressed nearly all activity evoked by the crush (paired t test, t = 7.21, p = 0.002, Fig. 2E) and eliminated afferent sensitization both near the injected injury region (medial site, two-factor ANOVA, F(1,8) = 8.52, p = 0.01) and distant from the injected injury region (caudal site, F(1,8) = 13.75, p = 0.006, Fig. 2F).

To determine whether afferent sensitization in squid persists after peripheral injury, we produced the same minor crush injury (Fig. 1C) in vivo and waited 30 min or 24 h before excising and testing the injured and contralateral fins. Observation of squid swimming freely after fin injury revealed no changes in fin motor function. All injured animals displayed apparent behavioral sensitization to visual stimuli, as described previously for arm injury (Crook et al., 2011). Three animals were tested behaviorally with von Frey filaments delivered to the mantle; in each case threshold for escape responses to tactile stimulation decreased after fin injury, consistent with generalized behavioral sensitization. Afferent responses to repeated test stimulation with a 10 g von Frey filament were significantly increased in fins excised 30 min after in vivo injury (Fig. 3A), similar to the afferent sensitization seen after ex vivo injury (Fig. 2D). Afferent responses showed large increases to test stimulation at medial and caudal sites, proximal and distal to the injury site, respectively, 24 h after injury (Fig. 3B). Significant enhancement of afferent responses was also observed at corresponding test sites on the contralateral (uninjured) fin 30 min and 24 h after unilateral fin injury (Fig. 3A,B) compared with control fins. Sensitization in the contralateral fin appeared somewhat weaker, but was not significantly different from ipsilateral sensitization.

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Fin injury in vivo produces short- and long-term sensitization of mechanoafferents and SA in the fin nerve. A, In vivo fin crush 30 min before excision sensitized mechanoafferents in the injured and contralateral fins. Activity evoked by 10 g tests showed increases at medial and caudal sites. B, In vivo fin crush 24 h before excision caused long-term sensitization of mechanosensory afferents in crushed and contralateral fins. C, In vivo but not ex vivo fin crush increased SA. The injured fin showed significantly higher SA 45 min after in vivo crush, whereas the injured and contralateral fins showed higher rates 24 h after in vivo crush. D, SA and activity evoked by tactile stimulation in fins from animals with natural injuries (received during interactions with conspecifics during the preceding 24 h) showed changes similar to those in experimentally injured animals. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01.

Afferent neurons in the squid fin exhibit long-lasting spontaneous activity after nearby or distant injury

In vivo fin injury resulted in increased SA in afferent fibers recorded after excision (n = 5) compared with fins from uninjured animals (n = 7), and this activity was present 30 min (single-factor ANOVA, F(2,15) = 5.11, p = 0.02) and 24 h after crush (45 min after excision) (n = 6 injured, 7 control; single-factor ANOVA, F(2,24) = 16.85, p = 0.0001; Fig. 3C). Unexpectedly, significantly enhanced SA was found in the contralateral fin nerve 24 after fin injury (single-factor ANOVA, F(2,24) = 16.85, p = 0.0001). It was not possible to confirm the SA was generated only in nociceptors, but the amplitudes and waveforms of many spontaneous spikes were similar to those of high-threshold single units tested in uninjured preparations. Because the functions of the neurons exhibiting SA could not be determined conclusively, all spikes were counted in this analysis. No significant differences were found in SA before and after crush delivered ex vivo (Fig. 3C), or when fins that were crushed after excision were compared with uncrushed fins (n = 8, two-way ANOVA with repeated measures, F(2,6) = 0.19, p = 0.67), suggesting that induction of persistent SA in peripheral afferents requires neural and/or humoral signals that are present in vivo but absent in the excised fin.

Wild and captive squid engage in agonistic interactions that sometimes result in extensive injuries (Hanlon et al., 1999; Cummins et al., 2011). We tested excised fins from six squid that had received nondebilitating unilateral injury within the previous 24 h while housed with other squid. Each injury presented as one or more open wounds on the mantle, arms, or fin. These “natural” wounds were several times larger than our experimental fin injury and were associated with the highest rates of SA recorded in the fin nerve (single-factor ANOVA, F(2,19) = 12.53, p = 0.0001; Fig. 3D, left). Evoked responses to mechanical stimulation were similar to those of experimentally injured squid (Fig. 3D, right). The degree of SA and sensitization were similar in the animals with (n = 2) and without (n = 4) obvious injury to a fin, suggesting that injury to regions of the body other than the fin can also produce generalized SA and sensitization.

Discussion

We show that squid, like most animals (Smith and Lewin, 2009), including other invertebrates (Nicholls and Baylor, 1968; Walters et al., 1983; Tracey et al., 2003; Tobin and Bargmann, 2004) and fish (Martin and Wickelgren, 1971; Sneddon et al., 2003), possess nociceptors that can inform the CNS about the onset of peripheral injury. These neurons are not activated by noxious heat but have mechanical thresholds in the same range (≥10 g) as nociceptors in mammals (Cain et al., 2001), fish (Ashley et al., 2007), leech (Pastor et al., 1996), and Aplysia (Billy and Walters, 1989). They are likely to be primary nociceptors because peripheral tissue in the mantle region of cephalopods lacks neuronal cell bodies (Hoffmann, 1910; Florey, 1966; Dubas and Boyle, 1985). Although some of the activity evoked by larger forces might represent injury discharge in motor axons, the modest adaptation to prolonged or repeated tissue-damaging forces (cf. Illich and Walters, 1997; Schlegel et al., 2004) and robust nociceptive sensitization (see below) suggest that most of this activity is generated by primary nociceptors.

Noxious stimulation decreased mechanosensory and electrical thresholds in fin nociceptors. Afferent sensitization could be dramatic; single units that initially only responded to the 100 g filament were sometimes activated by the 2 g filament after fin injury. Sensitization to electrical test stimuli suggests possible hyperexcitability of sensory axons (Weragoda et al., 2004) as well as possible enhancement of sensory transduction. This afferent sensitization is likely to contribute to the sensitization of defensive behavior found after peripheral injury (Crook et al., 2011). Thus, squid, Aplysia, leech, Drosophila, and mammals share an adaptive reaction to injury—sensitization of afferent neurons (Billy and Walters, 1989; Pastor et al., 1996; Babcock et al., 2009; Gold and Gebhart, 2010) that enhances behavioral responsiveness after injury. In mammals, sensitization of nociceptors plays a major role in promoting hyperreflexia and pain after many kinds of injury and inflammation (Gold and Gebhart, 2010; Walters, 2012).

Known nociceptors are usually electrically silent, but mammalian nociceptors sometimes fire spontaneously after injury or inflammation, and ongoing SA may drive spontaneous pain (Djouhri et al., 2006; Walters, 2012). Until now, persistent SA induced by injury has never been described in invertebrate sensory neurons. Injuries causing persistent afferent SA in squid were produced both experimentally and by attacks from other squid, and were similar to wounds on squid observed in the wild (R. T. Hanlon, unpublished observations). Ongoing activity in nociceptors means that information continues to be sent from the periphery to the CNS long after the onset of an injury, which in principle can inform the brain about the status of the injury and potentially drive pain-like sensations. In mammals pain is usually localized to sites of injury and inflammation, and investigations of nociceptor SA have focused on nociceptors that have fibers close to sites of injury and inflammation (Djouhri et al., 2006, 2012). A novel finding in this study is that peripheral injury induced pronounced, long-lasting SA (as well as sensitization to mechanical stimuli) in afferent neurons not only near the injury site but also on the other side of the body. In L. pealeii, fins are innervated separately (Florey, 1966; Hanlon et al., 1999) and are separated by the mantle, suggesting that humoral or CNS-mediated factors drive the spread of SA into the opposite fin. Whether injury outside the fin also induces contralateral spread of SA is not yet clear. The frequency of SA recorded in a fin nerve after injury was low compared with the localized, high-frequency, immediate response to injury. Nonetheless, if persistent, low-frequency SA is generated by afferent neurons in many regions of the body, then the total SA coming into the brain might be substantial.

Generation of afferent SA and the presence of afferent sensitization in the squid distant from as well as close to an injury site suggest that persistently enhanced activity provides little long-term information to the brain about injury location. Lack of localization would be consistent with the enhanced activity being part of a general behavioral state after injury that increases responsiveness to tactile stimulation anywhere on the body surface and to visual stimuli, as observed at the behavioral level in squid after arm injury (Crook et al., 2011). It is also consistent with a lack of evidence for targeted wound-tending behaviors in squid after injury in the laboratory (Crook et al., 2011) and field (Hanlon, unpublished observations). Whereas SA in mammalian nociceptors is assumed to be spatially associated with an injury, promoting pain-related defensive and recuperative behaviors directed at injury sites even in the absence of extrinsic stimulation, SA in squid nociceptors appears to be widespread after injury and might function primarily to drive a generalized vigilance state that includes multiple sensory modalities (Crook et al., 2011). This ongoing afferent information appears to differ significantly from that which drives persistent pain in mammals by not emphasizing the sites of injury.

Our findings do not directly address the speculation that cephalopods experience pain-like states (Mather and Anderson, 2007). We show that squid have sensory neurons that encode noxious stimuli and that exhibit nociceptive sensitization and SA, likely providing motivationally significant information to the brain long after an injury. However, differences between cephalopods and mammals in the spatial organization of long-lasting SA and sensitization in afferent neurons after injury suggest significant differences in the functions and behavioral consequences of nociceptive information processing in cephalopod and mammalian nervous systems.

Footnotes

  • This work was supported by NSF Grants IOS-1146987 to E.T.W. and IOS-1145478 to R.T.H., and the Baxter Pharmaceuticals Fellowship and Bang Summer Research Fellowship from the Marine Biological Laboratory to R.J.C. We thank Katharine Dickson and the staff of the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory for assistance with animal care.

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to either Robyn J. Crook or Edgar T. Walters, Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin Street, Houston, TX 77030, Robyn.Crook{at}uth.tmc.edu or Edgar.T.Walters{at}uth.tmc.edu

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