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Inhibition of Calcium-stimulated Adenylyl Cyclase Subtype 1 (AC1) for the Treatment of Neuropathic and Inflammatory Pain in Adult Female Mice

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Journal Mol Pain
Date 2021 Jun 4
PMID 34082635
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Cortical long-term potentiation (LTP) serves as a cellular model for chronic pain. As an important subtype of adenylyl cyclases (ACs), adenylyl cyclase subtype 1 (AC1) is critical for the induction of cortical LTP in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Genetic deletion of AC1 or pharmacological inhibition of AC1 blocked behavioral allodynia in animal models of neuropathic and inflammatory pain. Our previous experiments have identified a lead candidate AC1 inhibitor, NB001, which is highly selective for AC1 over other AC isoforms, and found that NB001 is effective in inhibiting behavioral allodynia in animal models of chronic neuropathic and inflammatory pain. However, previous experiments were carried out in adult male animals. Considering the potential gender difference as an important issue in researches of pain and analgesia, we investigated the effect of NB001 in female chronic pain animal models. We found that NB001, when administered orally, has an analgesic effect in female animal models of neuropathic and inflammatory pain without any observable side effect. Genetic deletion of AC1 also reduced allodynia responses in models of neuropathic pain and chronic inflammation pain in adult female mice. In brain slices of adult female mice, bath application of NB001(20 μM) blocked the induction of LTP in ACC. Our results indicate that calcium-stimulated AC1 is required for injury-related cortical LTP and behavioral allodynia in both sexes of adult animals, and NB001 can be used as a potential therapeutic drug for treating neuropathic and inflammatory pain in man and woman.

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