Do Microencapsulated Bovine Adrenal Medullary Chromaffin Cells Transplanted in Rats' Spinal Cord Produce Analgesic Effects?.
10.4097/kjae.2003.44.1.116
- Author:
Chi Hong AHN
1
;
Young Hoon JEON
;
Kyu Ho LEE
;
Guang Chun JIN
;
Yu Mi KIM
;
Jeong Ok LIM
;
Woon Yi BAEK
;
Jin Woong PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea. webaik@knu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Analgesic effects;
bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cells;
implantation;
microencapsulation;
rats spinal cord
- MeSH:
Cell Transplantation;
Chromaffin Cells*;
Chronic Pain;
Drug Compounding;
Humans;
Molecular Biology;
Neuropeptides;
Nicotine;
Pain, Intractable;
Physicians' Offices;
Reaction Time;
Sodium;
Spinal Cord*;
Subarachnoid Space;
Transplants
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
2003;44(1):116-122
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
BACKGROUND: Pain remains the chief complaint that brings patients to physician's office, despite recent insights into underlying mechanism and the identification of potential new therapeutic targets. In recent years, however, with the development of molecular biology cell transplantation gives us a new chance for treating intractable chronic pain. The major purpose of the present study was to determine if the chromaffin cells that were encapsulated with 1.3% (w/v) sodium alginate-poly-l-lysine-alginate (APA) had robust analgesic effects in the spinal atlanto-occipital subarachnoid space even without nicotine stimulation. METHODS: In order to determine whether microencapsulated bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cells transplanted in the spinal cord can produce analgesic effects, we microencapsulated adrenal medullary chromaffin cells with APA and implanted them into the subarachnoid space of rats' (n = 10) spinal cord, and investigated the hot sensitivity of rats' hind-paw by a light-beam test. RESULTS: It was found that compared with the control group, hot response latency of the group which received adrenal medullary chromaffin cells increased from the 12th day and the analgesic efficacy was maintained for at least 75 days. CONCLUSIONS: Microencapsulated bovine adrenal medullary chromaffin cells transplanted in the rats' spinal cord may provide a permanent and locally available source of neuropeptides for the relief of intractable pain. Furthermore, these kinds of analgesic effect were produced without any stimulation such as nicotine.
