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The Journal of Neurophysiology Vol. 87 No. 3 March 2002, pp. 1311-1317
Copyright ©2002 by the American Physiological Society

Age-Dependent Effects of Peripheral Inflammation on the Electrophysiological Properties of Neonatal Rat Dorsal Horn Neurons

Carole Torsney and Maria Fitzgerald

Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom

Torsney, Carole and Maria Fitzgerald. Age-Dependent Effects of Peripheral Inflammation on the Electrophysiological Properties of Neonatal Rat Dorsal Horn Neurons. J. Neurophysiol. 87: 1311-1317, 2002. The aim of this study was to investigate the postnatal development of spinal cord neurophysiological mechanisms of inflammatory pain. The effect of hindpaw inflammation on the properties of neonatal spinal dorsal horn cells was investigated in urethane-anesthetized newborn rats using in vivo single-unit extracellular recordings. Responses to cutaneous mechanical and electrical A and C fiber stimulation were recorded at postnatal day (P) 3, 10, and 21 in pups that had received a unilateral intraplantar carageenan injection (1%, 1 µl/g body wt) 2-5 h earlier and compared with age-matched controls. At all three ages, carageenan inflammation increased A fiber evoked sensitization, spontaneous activity, and the suprathreshold response magnitude of dorsal horn cells. Receptive field size, which normally decreases with postnatal age, was unaffected by inflammation in P3 and P10 pups but significantly increased at P21 so that the size distribution closely resembled that in control P3 pups. Mechanical thresholds of individual dorsal horn neurons were not altered by carageenan inflammation at any age. The results show that some dorsal horn cell properties that are likely to underlie inflammatory hypersensitivity such as increased spontaneous activity and response magnitude are observed from the earliest postnatal age examined (P3). However inflammation induced expansion of mechanical receptive field size is not observed until at least the second postnatal week. These results have implications for the postnatal processing of inflammatory pain.




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