摘要
Summary:Mechanisms of pruritus are implicated in the dysregulation of the metabolites in the spinal cord.We investigated pruritus behavioral testing in three groups of young adult male C57B1/6 mice,including one group treated with normal saline,while the other groups intradermally injected with a-Me-5-HT(histamine-independent pruritogen),compound 48/80(histaminedependent pruritogen)at the nape skin of the neck,respectively.Proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy(MRS)was used to compare spinal metabolites from the vertebral cervical among three groups,and to study the association of spinal metabolite ratio and pruritus intensity.The MRS-measured N-acetylaspartate-to-myoinositol ratio(NAA/Ins)was significantly correlated with the number of scratches between normal saline group and 48/80 group or a-Me-5-HT group(both P<0.0001),indicating that NAA/Ins may be a robust surrogate marker of histamine-independent/dependent pruritogen.There was significant difference in Glu/Ins between normal saline group and 48/80 group(P=0.017),indicating that Glu/Ins may be a surrogate marker of histamine-dependent pruritogen,while GABA/Ins was highly significantly different between normal saline group and a-Me-5-HT group(P=0.008),suggesting that GABA/Ins may be a surrogate marker of histamineindependent pruritogen.MRS may reflect the extent of pruritus intensity elicited by a-Me-5-HT and compound 48/80 with sensitivity similar to the number of scratches,and above potential markers need to be further validated in pre-clinical and clinical treatment trials.
基金
This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81670240 and No.81873467)
the Medical Innovation Project in Fujian Province(No.2017-CX-48).
