Up-regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the dorsal root ganglion of the rat bone cancer pain model.

ABSTRACT: Metastatic bone cancer causes severe pain, but current treatments often provide insufficient pain relief. One of the reasons is that mechanisms underlying bone cancer pain are not solved completely. Our previous studies have shown that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), known as a member of the neurotrophic family, is an important molecule in the pathological pain state in some pain models. We hypothesized that expression changes of BDNF may be one of the factors related to bone cancer pain; in this study, we investigated changes of BDNF expression in dorsal root ganglia in a rat bone cancer pain model. As we expected, BDNF mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) and protein were significantly increased in L3 dorsal root ganglia after intra-tibial inoculation of MRMT-1 rat breast cancer c

SUBMITTER: Tomotsuka N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4103927 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature