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Preliminary efficacy assessment of intrathecal injection of an American formulation of adenosine in humansJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 96:29-34. 2002..The purpose of this study was to screen for efficacy of a different formulation of adenosine marketed in the US, using both acute noxious stimulation and capsaicin-evoked mechanical hypersensitivity...
Phase I safety assessment of intrathecal injection of an American formulation of adenosine in humansJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 96:24-8. 2002..We performed a phase I safety trial of intrathecal injection of the American formulation of adenosine, which lacks mannitol...
Relative potency of epidural to intrathecal clonidine differs between acute thermal pain and capsaicin-induced allodyniaJ C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Pain 84:57-64. 2000....
Antinociceptive and hemodynamic effects of a novel alpha2-adrenergic agonist, MPV-2426, in sheepJ C Eisenach
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Anesthesiology 91:1425-36. 1999..This study determined the antinociceptive and hemodynamic effects of a novel alpha2-adrenergic agonist, MPV-2426, in sheep...
Severity of acute pain after childbirth, but not type of delivery, predicts persistent pain and postpartum depressionJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Pain 140:87-94. 2008..In contrast, the severity of the acute pain response to childbirth predicts persistent morbidity, suggesting the need to more carefully address pain treatment in the days following childbirth...
Dose response of intrathecal adenosine in experimental pain and allodyniaJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salen, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 97:938-42. 2002..We studied two doses of intrathecal adenosine in humans with experimental hypersensitivity and the ability of the adenosine receptor antagonist, aminophylline, to reverse adenosine's effects...
Analgesia from a peripherally active kappa-opioid receptor agonist in patients with chronic pancreatitisJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Pain 101:89-95. 2003..These limited data support the hypothesis that human visceral afferents express KOR and that peripherally restricted KOR agonists produce analgesia in patients with chronic visceral pain...
alpha2-adrenoceptors inhibit the intracellular Ca2+ response to electrical stimulation in normal and injured sensory neurons, with increased inhibition of calcitonin gene-related peptide expressing neurons after injuryJ C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Neuroscience 131:189-97. 2005..There is a shift in phenotype of sensory neurons which are inhibited by clonidine after nerve injury, which may explain clonidine's increased potency in the treatment of neuropathic compared with acute pain...
Phase I safety assessment of intrathecal ketorolacJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Pain 99:599-604. 2002..There were no long-term side effects 6 months after study. These data suggest that intrathecal ketorolac does not produce a high incidence of serious adverse events, and they support further investigation for analgesia...
Role of spinal cyclooxygenase in human postoperative and chronic painJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 112:1225-33. 2010..Animal studies suggest that these drugs act, in part, by blocking prostaglandin production in the spinal cord. The authors tested intrathecal ketorolac in patients with chronic or postoperative pain...
Cephalad movement of morphine and fentanyl in humans after intrathecal injectionJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 99:166-73. 2003..The purpose of this study was to examine differences between two often used opioids, morphine and fentanyl, in distribution in the CSF after intrathecal injection...
Intrathecal, but not intravenous adenosine reduces allodynia in patients with neuropathic painJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Pain 105:65-70. 2003..Given the modest effect and common side effects, the role for intrathecal adenosine as a sole agent for the treatment of neuropathic pain may be limited...
Effects of intrathecal ketorolac on human experimental painJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 112:1216-24. 2010..We used a spinal injection of small doses of the cyclooxygenase inhibitor ketorolac to survey the role of spinal cyclooxygenase in human experimental pain and hypersensitivity states...
Cystatin C in cerebrospinal fluid is not a diagnostic test for pain in humansJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Pain 107:207-12. 2004..These data suggest that cystatin C concentration in cerebrospinal fluid is an unreliable diagnostic marker for pain in humans...
Intrathecal but not intravenous opioids release adenosine from the spinal cordJames C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
J Pain 5:64-8. 2004..Whether adenosine participates in analgesia from spinal opioids in humans is not known, but spinal adenosine itself is analgesic in humans, consistent with an opioid-adenosine role in analgesia...
Interaction between intrathecal neostigmine and epidural clonidine in human volunteersD D Hood
Department of Anesthesia, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 85:315-25. 1996..The purpose of the current study was to examine the interaction between intrathecal neostigmine and epidural clonidine for analgesia and side effects in humans...
Gabapentin activates spinal noradrenergic activity in rats and humans and reduces hypersensitivity after surgeryKen ichiro Hayashida
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 106:557-62. 2007..Here, the authors tested the role of spinal noradrenergic inhibition in gabapentin's analgesia for postoperative pain...
Intrathecal morphine and ketorolac analgesia after surgery: comparison of spontaneous and elicited responses in ratsThomas J Martin
Department of Physiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1009, USA
Pain 113:376-85. 2005..Differences in drug potency could reflect fundamental differences in outcome measures or in the surgical procedures themselves. These data support combination study of intrathecal morphine and ketorolac for postoperative pain...
Oral gabapentin activates spinal cholinergic circuits to reduce hypersensitivity after peripheral nerve injury and interacts synergistically with oral donepezilKen ichiro Hayashida
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 106:1213-9. 2007....
P75-expressing elements are necessary for anti-allodynic effects of spinal clonidine and neostigmineX Paqueron
Pain Mechanisms Laboratory of the Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1009, USA
Neuroscience 102:681-6. 2001....
Perineural clonidine reduces mechanical hypersensitivity and cytokine production in established nerve injuryAlfonso Romero-Sandoval
Department of Anesthesiology, and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 104:351-5. 2006....
Gabapentin suppresses ectopic nerve discharges and reverses allodynia in neuropathic ratsH L Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Physiology, and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 288:1026-30. 1999..This action may contribute, at least in part, to the antiallodynic effect of gabapentin on neuropathic pain...
Morphine-induced spinal cholinergic activation: in vivo imaging with positron emission tomographyH D Gage
Division of Radiologic Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Blvd, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1061, USA
Pain 91:139-45. 2001..Following preclinical screening, PET scanning with [(18)F]FBT may be useful to investigate mechanisms of analgesic action in normal humans and in those with pain...
Role of spinal NO in antiallodynic effect of intrathecal clonidine in neuropathic ratsH L Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 89:1518-23. 1998..The objectives of this study were to assess the role of spinal NO in maintenance of allodynia and to determine the role of spinal NO in the antiallodynic effect of intrathecal clonidine...
Neuronal nitric oxide synthase is upregulated in a subset of primary sensory afferents after nerve injury which are necessary for analgesia from alpha2-adrenoceptor stimulationWeiya Ma
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Brain Res 1127:52-8. 2007....
Morphine-induced spinal release of adenosine is reduced in neuropathic ratsA Sandner-Kiesling
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA
Anesthesiology 95:1455-9. 2001....
Antiallodynic effect of intrathecal gabapentin and its interaction with clonidine in a rat model of postoperative painJ K Cheng
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Anesthesiology 92:1126-31. 2000....
Intrathecal clonidine reduces hypersensitivity after nerve injury by a mechanism involving spinal m4 muscarinic receptorsYoo-Jin Kang
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesth Analg 96:1403-8, table of contents. 2003..These data in animals suggest that spinal m4 type muscarinic receptors are important to the effect of clonidine in treating hypersensitivity to touch after nerve injury...
Spinal noradrenaline transporter inhibition by reboxetine and Xen2174 reduces tactile hypersensitivity after surgery in ratsHideaki Obata
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Pain 113:271-6. 2005..Finally, these data suggest that intrathecal administration of Xen2174 at the time of spinal anesthesia might produce postoperative analgesia in humans...
Clonidine reduces hypersensitivity and alters the balance of pro- and anti-inflammatory leukocytes after local injection at the site of inflammatory neuritisAlfonso Romero-Sandoval
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Brain Behav Immun 21:569-80. 2007..This early effect likely underlies the delayed anti-inflammatory and anti-hypersensitivity effects of perineural clonidine in this setting...
Intrathecal neostigmine and sufentanil for early labor analgesiaK E Nelson
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27103, USA
Anesthesiology 91:1293-8. 1999..In this study, the authors used intrathecal neostigmine in combination with intrathecal sufentanil to investigate the usefulness of neostigmine for reducing side effects and prolonging the duration of sufentanil...
Effects of intrathecal neostigmine, bupivacaine, and their combination on sympathetic nerve activity in ratsH L Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 88:481-6. 1998..The current study examined directly the interaction of intrathecal injection of bupivacaine and neostigmine on splanchnic sympathetic efferent nerve activity...
Alfentanil, but not amitriptyline, reduces pain, hyperalgesia, and allodynia from intradermal injection of capsaicin in humansJ C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesia, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Anesthesiology 86:1279-87. 1997....
Intraplantar injection of a cyclooxygenase inhibitor ketorolac reduces immunoreactivities of substance P, calcitonin gene-related peptide, and dynorphin in the dorsal horn of rats with nerve injury or inflammationW Ma
Pain Mechanism Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacological Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Neuroscience 121:681-90. 2003....
An obligatory role for spinal cholinergic neurons in the antiallodynic effects of clonidine after peripheral nerve injuryX Paqueron
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Anesthesiology 94:1074-81. 2001....
Medium and large injured dorsal root ganglion cells increase TRPV-1, accompanied by increased alpha2C-adrenoceptor co-expression and functional inhibition by clonidineWeiya Ma
Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1009, USA
Pain 113:386-94. 2005....
Intrathecal morphine reduces the visceromotor response to acute uterine cervical distension in an estrogen-independent mannerSang-Wook Shin
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacological Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA
Anesthesiology 98:1467-71; discussion 6A. 2003....
Perineural clonidine reduces p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in sensory neuronsBaogang Liu
Department of Anesthesiology, Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Neuroreport 17:1313-7. 2006..These data suggest that activation of alpha2-adrenoceptors at the site of nerve injury, probably by immune modulation, reduces intracellular signaling in primary afferents that leads to hypersensitivity...
Assessment of behavior during labor in rats and effect of intrathecal morphineChuanyao Tong
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 108:1081-6. 2008..To address this, the authors classified and quantified spontaneous behaviors during labor and delivery in rats and examined the effects of a known analgesic, intrathecal morphine...
Epidural fentanyl produces labor analgesia by a spinal mechanismR D'ANGELO
Department of Anesthesiology, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Anesthesiology 88:1519-23. 1998..The purpose of this study was to determine if epidural fentanyl produces analgesia in laboring patients by a primary spinal or supraspinal action...
The vascular mechanism of ephedrine's beneficial effect on uterine perfusion during pregnancyC Tong
Department of Anesthesia, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009
Anesthesiology 76:792-8. 1992....
Chronic intrathecal morphine administration produces homologous mu receptor/G-protein desensitization specifically in spinal cordC E Maher
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Center for the Neurobiological Investigation of Drug Abuse, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Brain Res 895:1-8. 2001..t. morphine treatment were observed in brain sections. These data show that homologous desensitization of mu receptor/G-protein coupling occurs specifically in spinal cord following chronic morphine administration...
Allosteric adenosine modulation to reduce allodyniaH L Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA
Anesthesiology 95:416-20. 2001..Although obvious adverse effects were not observed in this investigation, further study is required to determine the feasibility of the use of such modulators in the treatment of chronic pain associated with hyperalgesia and allodynia...
Intrathecal clonidine alleviates allodynia in neuropathic rats: interaction with spinal muscarinic and nicotinic receptorsH L Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 90:509-14. 1999..The current study determined the role of spinal muscarinic and nicotinic receptors in the antiallodynic effect of intrathecally administered clonidine in spinal nerve-ligated rats...
Cyclooxygenase 2 in infiltrating inflammatory cells in injured nerve is universally up-regulated following various types of peripheral nerve injuryW Ma
Pain Mechanism Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Neuroscience 121:691-704. 2003..Our data strongly suggest that during the initial several months after nerve injury, peripherally over-produced prostaglandins play an important role in the maintenance of neuropathic pain...
The monoamine reuptake inhibitor milnacipran does not affect nociception to acute visceral distension in ratsSang-Wook Shin
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesth Analg 98:1365-9, table of contents. 2004..IMPLICATIONS: Neither intrathecal nor i.v. milnacipran, a monoamine reuptake inhibitor, inhibits an acute visceral pain response induced by colorectal or uterine cervical distension...
Peripheral nerve injury sensitizes the response to visceral distension but not its inhibition by the antidepressant milnacipranSang-Wook Shin
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 100:671-5. 2004..Lack of efficacy of the antidepressant milnacipran against visceral stimuli suggests that visceral hypersensitivity may not share the same pharmacology of inhibition as somatic hypersensitivity after nerve injury...
Intrathecal ketorolac enhances antinociception from clonidineDawn R Conklin
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesth Analg 96:191-4, table of contents. 2003....
Hyperexcitability of axotomized and neighboring unaxotomized sensory neurons is reduced days after perineural clonidine at the site of injuryBaogang Liu
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
J Neurophysiol 94:3159-67. 2005....
Intrathecal adenosine following spinal nerve ligation in rat: short residence time in cerebrospinal fluid and no change in A(1) receptor bindingCarsten Bantel
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forst University Schhol of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 96:103-8. 2002....
Peripheral block of the hyperpolarization-activated cation current (Ih) reduces mechanical allodynia in animal models of postoperative and neuropathic painCarine Dalle
Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1009, USA
Reg Anesth Pain Med 30:243-8. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: The current study shows that peripheral block of I h produces an antiallodynic effect, which suggests that I h channels represent a novel target for nerve block treatment of postoperative and neuropathic pain...
Phase I human safety assessment of intrathecal neostigmine containing methyl- and propylparabensJ C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesia, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesth Analg 85:842-6. 1997..These data are important to the clinical use of this new therapy...
Pregnancy and ephedrine increase the release of nitric oxide in ovine uterine arteriesP Li
Department of Anesthesia, Wake Forest University Medical Center, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesth Analg 82:288-93. 1996....
alpha2A-adrenoceptor stimulation reduces capsaicin-induced glutamate release from spinal cord synaptosomesX Li
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 299:939-44. 2001....
Analgesia induced by perineural clonidine is enhanced in persistent neuritisAlfonso Romero Sandoval
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Neuroreport 18:67-71. 2007..These data support treatment strategies with alpha2-adrenoceptor agonists in persistent neuritis...
Adenosine reduces glutamate release in rat spinal synaptosomesXinhui Li
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 103:1060-5. 2005..This effect is unaltered after peripheral nerve injury and thereby is unlikely to account for the enhanced analgesic efficacy of intrathecal adenosine in this setting...
Systemic, but not intrathecal ketorolac is antinociceptive to uterine cervical distension in ratsSang-Wook Shin
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Pain 105:109-14. 2003..Unlike morphine, which reduces response to UCD by spinal and supraspinal mechanisms and whose action is blocked by estrogen, the cyclooxygenase inhibitor, ketorolac acts at an estrogen-independent, non spinal site...
Inhibitory M2 muscarinic receptors are upregulated in both axotomized and intact small diameter dorsal root ganglion cells after peripheral nerve injuryK-I Hayashida
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Neuroscience 140:259-68. 2006....
Intrathecal morphine reduces allodynia after peripheral nerve injury in rats via activation of a spinal A1 adenosine receptorYong Zhang
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 102:416-20. 2005....
Estrogen reduces efficacy of mu- but Not kappa-opioid agonist inhibition in response to uterine cervical distensionAndreas Sandner-Kiesling
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 96:375-9. 2002..In addition, these data suggest that kappa-opioid agonists may be effective in the treatment of pain originating from the uterine cervix, regardless of estrogen status...
Brain derived nerve growth factor induces spinal noradrenergic fiber sprouting and enhances clonidine analgesia following nerve injury in ratsKen ichiro Hayashida
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Pain 136:348-55. 2008....
Gabapentin acts within the locus coeruleus to alleviate neuropathic painKen ichiro Hayashida
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 109:1077-84. 2008..The authors hypothesized that gabapentin activates noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC) by a local action...
Oral donepezil reduces hypersensitivity after nerve injury by a spinal muscarinic receptor mechanismBridgette A Clayton
Department of Anesthesiology, Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 106:1019-25. 2007..Here, the authors tested whether donepezil, a central nervous system penetrant cholinesterase inhibitor with a low incidence of gastrointestinal side effects, would relieve hypersensitivity in an animal model of neuropathic pain...
The antinociceptive effects of spinal cyclooxygenase inhibitors on uterine cervical distensionDongping Du
Pain Mechanism Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Brain Res 1024:130-6. 2004..None of the inhibitors altered hemodynamic response to uterine cervical distension. The study suggests that targeting spinal COX-2 could be useful to treat transient and acute visceral pain from the uterine cervix...
Neostigmine decreases bupivacaine use by patient-controlled epidural analgesia during labor: a randomized controlled studyVernon H Ross
Departments of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesth Analg 109:524-31. 2009..We therefore tested the hypothesis that epidural neostigmine in combination with bupivacaine by continuous infusion during labor would reduce the amount of bupivacaine required...
Spinal adenosine receptor activation reduces hypersensitivity after surgery by a different mechanism than after nerve injuryHideaki Obata
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Anesthesiology 100:1258-62. 2004..These results indicate that, after surgery, T62 acts via a mechanism different from that of spinal nerve ligation, a model of chronic neuropathic pain...
Pharmacology of opioid and nonopioid analgesics in chronic pain statesT J Martin
Department of Physiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 299:811-7. 2001..Additional models of chronic pain, particularly visceral pain, have been developed; however, the pharmacology of these models is not well established at this time...
Age-dependent responses to nerve injury-induced mechanical allodyniaDouglas G Ririe
Department of Anesthesiology, and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 104:344-50. 2006....
Clonidine-induced neuronal activation in the spinal cord is altered after peripheral nerve injuryCarlo Pancaro
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 98:748-53. 2003....
Alpha2-adrenoceptor stimulation transforms immune responses in neuritis and blocks neuritis-induced painE Alfonso Romero-Sandoval
Department of Anesthesiology, Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1009, USA
J Neurosci 25:8988-94. 2005....
Intrathecal lidocaine reverses tactile allodynia caused by nerve injuries and potentiates the antiallodynic effect of the COX inhibitor ketorolacWeiya Ma
Pain Mechanisms Laboratory, Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, wisnton Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 98:203-8. 2003....
Treating and preventing chronic pain: a view from the spinal cord--Bonica Lecture, ASRA Annual Meeting, 2005James C Eisenach
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Reg Anesth Pain Med 31:146-51. 2006
Intrathecal ketorolac reverses hypersensitivity following acute fentanyl exposureYoo-Jin Kang
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 97:1641-4. 2002
Multifactorial preoperative predictors for postcesarean section pain and analgesic requirementPeter H Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 104:417-25. 2006..The study aimed to determine predictive factors for postcesarean pain and analgesia using an assessment of pain threshold and suprathreshold thermal stimuli as well as degree of somatization and anxiety...
Morphological and pharmacological evidence for the role of peripheral prostaglandins in the pathogenesis of neuropathic painWeiya Ma
Pain Mechanism Laboratory, Department of Anaesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Eur J Neurosci 15:1037-47. 2002....
Abdominal surgery decreases food-reinforced operant responding in rats: relevance of incisional painThomas J Martin
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1083, USA
Anesthesiology 103:629-37. 2005..The following studies were undertaken to determine how surgery influences food-reinforced behavior in rats and to determine the relevance of afferent input from the incision site on this behavior...
Chronic constriction injury of sciatic nerve induces the up-regulation of descending inhibitory noradrenergic innervation to the lumbar dorsal horn of miceWeiya Ma
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Brain Res 970:110-8. 2003....
Four PGE2 EP receptors are up-regulated in injured nerve following partial sciatic nerve ligationWeiya Ma
Department of Anesthesiology, and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Exp Neurol 183:581-92. 2003..Our data suggest that following PSNL, PGE2 is one of the possible PGs overproduced in injured nerve and PG overproduction is involved in the up-regulation of EP receptors in injured nerve...
Plasticity of spinal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors following spinal nerve ligationMichelle Vincler
Department of Anesthesiology, Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Neurosci Res 48:139-45. 2004..We propose that the increased expression of the alpha3 and alpha5 nicotinic subunits may contribute to the mechanical hypersensitivity observed following spinal nerve ligation...
Activation of glutamate transporters in the locus coeruleus paradoxically activates descending inhibition in ratsKen ichiro Hayashida
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Brain Res 1317:80-6. 2010....
Age-dependent responses to thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia in a rat model of acute postoperative painDouglas G Ririe
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesthesiology 99:443-8. 2003..The purpose of the present study was to examine postoperative responses in rats of developmental ages paralleling the infant to young adult human...
Uterine cervical distension induces cFos expression in deep dorsal horn neurons of the rat spinal cordChuanyao Tong
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 99:205-11. 2003..The authors examined uterine cervical distension-evoked cFos immunoreactivity in rat spinal cords, and the inhibitory effect of spinal cyclo-oxygenase inhibition on cFos expression...
Effects of laparotomy on spontaneous exploratory activity and conditioned operant responding in the rat: a model for postoperative painThomas J Martin
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1083, USA
Anesthesiology 101:191-203. 2004..Analgesics display a number of limiting side effects, including sedation, cognitive impairment, and ileus. Although several postoperative rodent models have been developed, these models do not address these concerns...
Knock down of the alpha 5 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in spinal nerve-ligated rats alleviates mechanical allodyniaMichelle A Vincler
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1009, USA
Pharmacol Biochem Behav 80:135-43. 2005..These results suggest that the increased expression of the alpha5 nAChR subunit following SNL contributes to spinal CREB phosphorylation and the maintenance of mechanical allodynia...
Immunocytochemical localization of the alpha3, alpha4, alpha5, alpha7, beta2, beta3 and beta4 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits in the locus coeruleus of the ratMichelle A Vincler
Department of Anesthesiology and Center for the Study of Pharmacologic Plasticity in the Presence of Pain, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Brain Res 974:25-36. 2003..These data are consistent with the presence of multiple nAChRs within the LC and extend these findings to show the distribution pattern of each nAChR subunit throughout the LC nucleus...
Cyclooxygenase-1 in the spinal cord is altered after peripheral nerve injuryXiaoying Zhu
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 99:1175-9. 2003..The current study was undertaken to determine whether COX-1 was altered in this model...
Allosteric modulation of adenosine A1 receptor coupling to G-proteins in brainSteven R Childers
Department of Physiology Pharmacology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
J Neurochem 93:715-23. 2005..These results suggest a mechanism of allosteric modulators to increase the number of activated G-proteins per receptor, and provide a neuroanatomical basis for understanding potential therapeutic effects of such drugs...
Role of adenosine receptors in spinal G-protein activation after peripheral nerve injuryCarsten Bantel
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Anesthesiology 96:1443-9. 2002..The data suggest that increased adenosine release during conditions of SNL results in an increased basal activity of G proteins in the spinal cord during neuropathic pain...
Opioid-independent mechanisms supporting offset analgesia and temporal sharpening of nociceptive informationK T Martucci
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
Pain 153:1232-43. 2012....
0.125% ropivacaine is similar to 0.125% bupivacaine for labor analgesia using patient-controlled epidural infusionM D Owen
Department of Anesthesiology, The Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesth Analg 86:527-31. 1998..125% ropivacaine and 0.125% bupivacaine. We conclude that these two drugs are clinically indistinguishable at this concentration...
Role of protons in activation of cardiac sympathetic C-fibre afferents during ischaemia in catsH L Pan
Department of Anesthesiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157, USA
J Physiol 518:857-66. 1999..4. Collectively, this study provides important in vivo evidence that protons contribute to activation/sensitization of cardiac sympathetic C-fibre afferents during myocardial ischaemia...
Does dextrose affect analgesia or the side effects of intrathecal sufentanil?J C Gage
Department of Anesthesia, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1009, USA
Anesth Analg 85:826-30. 1997....
Did experimenter bias conceal the efficacy of spinal opioids in previous studies with the spinal nerve ligation model of neuropathic pain?James C Eisenach
Anesthesiology 100:765-7. 2004
Intrathecal clonidine for postoperative analgesia in elderly patients: the influence of baricity on hemodynamic and analgesic effectsAmir Baker
Department of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Anesth Analg 99:128-34. 2004..05). Sedation scores did not differ between groups. We conclude that increasing the baricity of IT clonidine solution in the conditions of our experiment reduces hemodynamic side effects but also analgesia from IT administered clonidine...
Plasticity in action of intrathecal clonidine to mechanical but not thermal nociception after peripheral nerve injuryXavier Paqueron
Department of Anesthesiology, , Paris, France
Anesthesiology 99:199-204. 2003..These results do not favor a regulation of nociceptive transmission by a tonic release of acetylcholine in nerve-injured rats...
Preventing chronic pain after surgery: who, how, and when?James C Eisenach
Reg Anesth Pain Med 31:1-3. 2006
Intraspinal adenosine induces spinal cord norepinephrine release in spinal nerve-ligated rats but not in normal or sham controlsCarsten Bantel
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital Munster, Munster, Germany
Anesthesiology 98:1461-6. 2003....
ST91 [2-(2,6-diethylphenylamino)-2-imidazoline hydrochloride]-mediated spinal antinociception and synergy with opioids persists in the absence of functional alpha-2A- or alpha-2C-adrenergic receptorsLaura S Stone
Faculty of Dentistry, McGill Centre for Research on Pain, 3640 University Street, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B2, Canada
J Pharmacol Exp Ther 323:899-906. 2007..The unique profile of ST91 may be advantageous in pain management...
Spinal adrenergic and cholinergic receptor interactions activated by clonidine in postincisional painFrederic Duflo
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, hôpital de l Hôtel dieu, Lyon, 69288 cedex 02, France
Anesthesiology 98:1237-42. 2003..The current study sought to determine the subtype of alpha(2) adrenoceptors activated by clonidine in a rodent model for human postoperative pain, and to examine its interaction with spinal cholinergic receptors...
Spinal nerve ligation increases alpha2-adrenergic receptor G-protein coupling in the spinal cordCarsten Bantel
Department of Anesthesiology, University of Munster, Germany
Brain Res 1038:76-82. 2005..These data suggest that the increased potency of clonidine in neuropathic pain could reflect increased efficiency of G-protein coupling from spinal alpha2-adrenergic receptors...
Perineural alpha(2A)-adrenoceptor activation inhibits spinal cord neuroplasticity and tactile allodynia after nerve injuryWeiya Ma
Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Clinic, Hopital St. Luc, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium
Anesthesiology 97:972-80. 2002....
