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What is pain?

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Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage

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What is the usual type of R of pain R?

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free nerve endings

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What is analgesia?

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Treatment that causes insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness

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What is chronic pain?

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pain longer than 12 weeks despite medication / treatment

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What is congenital pain insensitivity?

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one cannot feel pain due to genetic causes

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What is syringomyelia?

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cyst formation in the spinal cord that leads to loss of pain sensation

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2 examples of analgesics

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  • narcotics (opioid)

- NSAIDS (non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)

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What are the 3 types of pain?

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  • Nociceptive pain
  • Neuropathic pain
  • Central pain
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Types of nociceptors and their fiber (3)

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  • thermal nociceptors (Ad)
  • mechanical nociceptors (Ad)
  • polymodal nociceptors (C)
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A delta fibers projection

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Rexed lamina I, V

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C fibers projection

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Rexed lamina II (substantia gelatinosa)

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A beta fibers projection

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Rexed lamina IV

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What is TRPV1 and what activates it (3)?

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capsaicin receptor

  • noxious heat
  • acid
  • capsaicin (chili)
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What activates TRPV2?

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Temperatures above 52°C

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What activates TRPV3? (2)

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  • temperature above 34°C

- camphor

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What activated TRPV4?

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temperature above 27°C

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What activates TRPM8? (2)

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  • temperature below 28°C

- menthol

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What activates TRPA1? (2)

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  • temperature below 18°C

- mustard oil

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3 nociceptive pathways

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  • Spino thalamic tract
  • Spino reticular tract
  • Spino mesencephalic tract
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Types of projection neurons spinothalamic tract (2)

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  • Wide-dynamic-range neuron

- Nociception-specific neuron

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Types of spinothalamic tracts (2)

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  • neospinothalamic tract

- paleospinothalamic tract

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What does the neospinothalamic tract detect? (2)

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sensory component of pain, location

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What does the paleospinothalamic tract detect? (2)

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emotional component of pain + autonomic reactions

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Where does the paleospinothalamic tract project? (4)

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  1. association cortex
  2. cingulate
  3. prefrontal
  4. insular
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Where is the projection neuron of spinoreticular tract
located in rexed laminae VII and VIII
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Course of spinoreticular tract (3)
- reticular formation (pons) - medial nuclei of thalamus - somatosensory cortex
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What is spinoreticular tract responding to?
alarming arousal reaction
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Where is the projection neuron of spinomesencephaic tract?
located in Rexed lamina I and V
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Where does spino mesencephalic tract project?
periaqueductal gray matter
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Types of change in pain sensitivity (3)
- Hyperalgesia - Allodynia - Referred pain
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3 types of hyperalgesia
- primary - secondary - central
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Which molecules can trigger primary hyperalgesia? (6)
local inflammatory substances like - bradykinin, - prostaglandins, - serotonin, - substance P, - H+, K+
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Mediators of secondary hyperalgesia (4)
- CGRP (vasodilators) - Histamine - Bradykinin - Substance P
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What is the gate control theory?
the ability of low-threshold fibre activation to reduce pain
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What happens in the gate control theory?
The projection neurone is excited by sensory neurons (C and Ab) and inhibited by interneurons in the superficial dorsal horn
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What is a monoaminergic molecule?
a chemical which functions to directly modulate the neurotransmitter systems in the brain
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3 way of regulation of pain sensation
- gate control theory - regulation of nociceptive neurons in SP by descending monoaminergic pathways - neurons in the endogenous analgesia pathway
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Which peptides are derived from POMC? (3)
- b endorphin - endormorphin 1 - endomorphin 2
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Which peptides are derived from pro enkephalin? (2)
- met enkephalin | - let enkephalin
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Why peptides are derived from pro-dynorphin? (2)
- dynorphin A | - dynorphin B
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Which peptide is derived from pro orphanin FQ?
Orphanin FQ
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B endorphin receptor
mu / delta
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Endorphin receptor
mu
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Met enkephalin receptor
delta (majuscule?)
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Let enkephalin receptor
delta
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dynorphin receptor
kappa
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Presynaptic effect of opioid peptides?
reduces duration of PSP by inhibiting VDCC and reducing the release of nt
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Postsynaptic effect of opioid peptides?
hyperpolarization of postsynaptic neurons by activating K+ channels
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