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B2 L21- The Nociceptive System and Pain Perception- PNS Flashcards

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What we feel ______ (is/is not) usually a very good measure of what is occurring at the tissues (severity wise).

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is not.

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Perception (what we feel) _____ accurately/ inaccurately represents the stimulus.

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inaccurately

We are easily misled by perceptions. The perception of pain may not be the actual amount of pain.

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What is the Mature organism model?

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Need to experience what the patient is going through to gain deep understanding

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What did Professor Oliver Sacks- “A leg to stand on” do? What were his 2 main key objectives?

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  • Hiking, fell off a cliff, rupturing quadriceps from patella,
  • Post-op immobilised in a cast for weeks in hospital
  • Initial exercises: isometric quadriceps contraction
  • Now mobilising with physios for the first time
  1. Understanding a mature organism model
  2. Understanding your patient’s experience
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What is a brain and how plastic is neuronal function?

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A single interneuron adaptively modulates activity in 50,000 neurons, enabling consistently sparse codes for odors.

  • ~100,000,000 neurons
  • Each can make thousands of synapses
  • Dendrites move 30% of their length to find new connections.
  • Millions of synapeses are linking up and unlinking every second
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What is 1?

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Spinal cord input

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What is 2? What is the function?

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Hippocampus: memory, spatial recognition, fear conditioning

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What is 3? What is the function?

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Hypothalamus/Thalamus: stress responses, autonomic regulation, motivation

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What is 4? What is the function?

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Sensory cortex: discrimination of symptoms region

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What is 5? What is the function?

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Cingulate cortex: concentration/focus, surrounds corpus callosum

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What is 6? What is the function?

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Amygdala: fear, fear conditioning, addiction

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What is 7? What is the function?

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Prefrontal cortex: problem solving, memory

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What is 8? What is the function?

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Cerebellum: movement and cognition

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What is 9? What is the function?

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Premotor/motor cortex: organise and prepare movements / muscle activation

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What is the IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain)’s definition of pain?

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An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

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Pain is the opposite of pleasure. What does that mean?

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  • Grouped with emotions and appetites not sensation.
  • Motivation for avoidance behaviour.
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What are 3 components in the IASP (International Association for the Study of Pain)’s definition of pain?

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  1. Sensory-discriminative dimension
  2. Cognitive-evaluative dimension
  3. Motivational-affective dimension
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What are 2 features of pain?

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  1. Intensity, location, quality &behaviour of pain.
  2. Anticipation, attention and influence of previous experiences
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What are the 3 differences between acute pain and chronic pain?

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  1. Acute pain has an inherent biological function; it is a warning for actual or potential physiological harm
  2. Acute pain or nociceptive pain occurs when a strong, noxious stimulus impacts the skin or deep tissues.
  3. Acute pain stops quickly after the noxious stimulus is removed, often long before the healing is completed, a process that may take a few days or weeks. even before healing is completed.
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The characteristics of acute pain are a combination of _____, _____ and _______.

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tissue damage; pain; anxiety

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Why is the anxiety related to acute pain?

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There is anxiety about the future consequences of the injury

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In acute pain, the assessment of this threat and therefore the degree of anxiety will depend on factors such as _____ and ______.

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personality; experience

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Acute pain, then, encompasses the unpleasantness of ____ and the hope of _____.

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past injury; future recovery

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What is acute pain due to?

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Pain of recent onset and probable limited duration. It usually has an identifiable temporal and causal association with injury or disease.

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What is chronic pain?

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Commonly persists tissue healing and there may not be any identifiable cause

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What is the clinical benchmark for what is considered chronic pain?

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3 months

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Acute and chronic pain may represent a ______rather than distinct entities.

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continuum

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Increased understanding of the mechanisms of acute pain has led to _________ (improvements/no improvements) in clinical management and in the future it may be possible to more directly target the _____ processes associated with specific pain syndromes.

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improvements; pathophysiological

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It entirely possible to generally impact a range of _____, _____ and ______ processes associated with pain syndromes.

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pathophysiological; nociceptive; perceptive

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What is a Noxious stimulus?

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A stimulus that is damaging or threatens damage to normal tissues.

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What is a nociceptor? What are 2 key things to remember?

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A high-threshold sensory receptor of the peripheral somatosensory nervous system that is capable of transducing and encoding noxious stimuli.

  1. With sensitisation, the ‘nociceptor’ can respond to non-noxious stimuli.
  2. NOT pain receptor
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What is nociception?

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The neural process of encoding noxious stimuli (not perception).

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What is a pain threshold?

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The minimum intensity of a stimulus that is perceived as painful (variable within and between individuals)

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What is sensitisation? What are the 2 types of sensitisation?

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Nociceptive neurons increase responsiveness to a normal input, or respond to subthreshold input

  1. Peripheral
  2. Central
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What are 4 ways sensitisation can occur?

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  1. drop in threshold
  2. increase in suprathreshold response
  3. spontaneous discharges
  4. increases in receptive field size
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Clinically, whar are the 2 types of sensitisation?

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  1. hyperalgesia
  2. allodynia.
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What is Hyperesthesia?

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Increased sensitivity to cutaneous stimulation, such as normal touch and temperature, and pain.

  • Drop in threshold to any stimulus
  • Increased response to normal stimulus
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What is Hyperalgesia? What are 2 key components to remember?

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An increased response to a stimulus which is normally perceived to be painful.

  1. reflects increased pain on suprathreshold stimulation.
  2. is a consequence of perturbation of the nociceptive system with peripheral or central sensitization, or both
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Wha are the 2 types of hyperalgesia?

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  1. Primary
  2. Seconary
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What is primary hyperalgesia?

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at the site of injury

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What is secondary hyperalgesia?

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at uninjured skin surrounding the site of injury

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What is allodynia?

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Lowered threshold for pain perception, so that pain is perceived with a stimulus which does not normally provoke pain.

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What are 4 things that evoke pain in allodynia?

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  1. Touch
  2. light pressure
  3. moderate cold
  4. moderate warmth

evoke pain when applied to apparently normal skin.

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When is allodynia often seen?

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Seen in patients with lesions of the nervous system

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What is central sensitization?

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Increased responsiveness of nociceptive neurons in the central nervous system to their normal or subthreshold afferent input. This may include increased responsiveness due to dysfunction of endogenous pain control systems.

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What is peripheral sensitization?

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Increased responsiveness and reduced threshold of nociceptive neurons in the periphery to the stimulation of their receptive fields.

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What is Peripheral neuropathic pain?

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Pain caused by a lesion or disease of the peripheral somatosensory nervous system.

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What are 2 neurotransmitter for A delta and C fibres which are released centrally & peripherally?

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  1. Substance P (SP) – a neurokinin, also in spinal cord
  2. Calcitonin Gene-Related Protein (CGRP)
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What are 2 neurotransmitters for the brain?

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  1. common excitatory transmitter – Glutamate (also elsewhere)
  2. common inhibitory transmitter – GABA (aminobutyric acid)
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What are 4 inflammatory mediators?

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  1. Bradykinin (BK)
  2. Prostaglandins (PGs) e.g. cyclo-oxygenase-2 (COX-2) proteinases, act to sensitise nociceptors
  3. Histamine (His) for arteriole vasodilation and vessel permeability
  4. Cytokines (e.g. Interleukin 1, or Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha)
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What are 2 hormones associated with inflammation, immune system upregulation and/or sensitisation?

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  1. Adrenaline
  2. Nerve growth factor (NGF)
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What are 2 ions associated with inflammation or ion gated channels on neurones?

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  1. Protons (low pH)
  2. Potassium, Sodium and Calcium ions
53
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What are 3 endogenous opioid neurotransmitters, associated with blocking nociception

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  1. Endorphins
  2. Enkephalins
  3. Dynorphins
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What is the Phenotypic switch?

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A beta fibres (normally mechanosensitive for touch) may switch to releasing substance P at the dorsal horn of the spinal cord – behaving like C fibres.

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What is sprouting?

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Neurones advancing into regions that they would not normally be found e.g. sympathetic nervous system neurons sprouting into dorsal root ganglion.

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What is orthodromic discharge?

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Action potential travelling in the most common direction, from dendrites to soma (cell body), axon and terminals.

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What is Antidromic discharge?

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Action potential travelling in the opposite direction to normal function (from CNS to periphery for sensory neurones). This is a mechanism for CNS activity to drive peripheral neurogenic inflammation.

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What are peripheral nociceptors?

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Sensory nerves constantly adapt. They are replaced every few days.

They produce neurotransmitter proteins and modulate their thresholds for detection and transduction

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What occurs during detection for peripheral nociceptors?,

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receptors on the sensory nerve ending for thermal, chemical and mechanical stimuli.

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What occurs during transduction for peripheral nociceptors?,

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production of an action potential, to transmit a “warning of threat” signal to the central nervous system.

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What are A delta (δ) fibres? What are 2 structural features?

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  1. medium diameter
  2. lightly myelinated
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What are C fibres? What are 3 structural features?

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  1. Most prevalent
  2. small diameter
  3. slow conducting
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What are 2 things that A delta (δ) fibres are specific to?

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  1. Mechanical stimuli
  2. Thermal input >42°C or < 5° C.
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C fibres are polymodal nocieptors, so what are 3 things that they respond to?

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  1. Mechanical stimuli
  2. Thermal
    • heat and cold with transient receptor potential channels
  3. Chemical
    • could be via acid sensing ion channels, transient receptor potential or potassium ion channels
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Many C fibres may be ‘____ nociceptors’ until activated with sensitisation.

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silent

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How are C fibres activated?

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sensitisation

67
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Silent nociceptors are activated, and already active A delta and C fibres respond to ____ (higher/lower) threshold stimuli, to detect and transduce ________.

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lower; action potentials

68
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What are 5 contributors to peripheral sensitisation?

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  1. damaged tissue
  2. cell disruption
  3. inflammation
  4. infection
  5. ischaemia
    • restriction in blood supply
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In peripheral sensitisation, release of a range of ______ mediators, degranulation of _____ to release _____and _____ (increase/decrease) vessel permeability (an ‘inflammatory soup’), activates and/or sensitises receptors and ion channels.

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chemical mediators; mast cells; histamine; increase

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Injury to a peripheral nerve causes ____and _____ changes not only at the _____, but also to other parts of the affected nerve and in due course to higher order neurons in the spinal cord and brain

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functional; biochemical; site of injury

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What is Neurogenic inflammation?

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A delta and C fibres also release neuropeptides from their peripheral terminals (chemical feedback) at the site of injury

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What are 3 types of neyropeptides?

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  1. Substance P
  2. Glutamate
  3. Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP)
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Example scenario: if you scratched your skin, the area turns red. If there is ______ fring of peripheral nerves, release of ______ inflammation may cause peripheral _____.

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antidromic; neurogenic; swelling

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What are the 3 steps that occur during peripheral sensitisation?

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  1. Tissue injury causes the release of bradykinin, 5HT, prostaglandins and L+ which stimulates C fibres
  2. Active C fibres release CGRP and substance P, which stimulates mast cells, which releases histamines.
  3. CGRP and substance P released by C fibres cause the dilation of blood vessels.
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Cell bodies of nociceptive afferents that innervate the trunk, limbs and viscera are in the _______ ganglia. Head, neck and oral cavity nociceptive afferents in the ___________ ganglia.

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dorsal root ganglia (DRG); trigeminal ganglia

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What are the 3 features of the dorsal root ganglia (DRG)?

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  1. a permeable connective tissue capsule, unlike the more robust capsular membrane that protects peripheral nerve fascicles, or the blood-brain barrier for the CNS.
  2. Yet positioned at the bony canal between peripheral and central nervous systems.
  3. The dorsal root ganglia: ~ 15,000 sensory neurone cell bodies. C fibre cell bodies commonly account for ~ 6,000-7,500 of these
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The nuclei in the DRG constantly modulate synthesis of______, ________ and ______.

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receptors; on channels; neurotransmitters

78
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In DRG, exposure to inflammatory substances, nerve injury or sprouting from other neurons (such as from the sympathetic nervous system) or satellite glial cells can lead to _______ or even _____ action potentials.

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sensitisation; ectopic

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In DRG, gradual mechanical occlusion may be tolerated with far ____ (more/less) symptoms than rapid changes in foramen space.

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less

80
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What is neuropathetic pain?

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Pain caused by a lesion or disease in somatosensory nervous system.

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What is central neuropathic pain?

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Pain caused by a lesion or disease of CNS.

82
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What is nociplastic pain? How is nociplastic pain different to neuropathic pain?

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Pain arising from altered nociception, despite no disease or lesion. Nociplastic pain behaves like neuropathic pain but without an origin of pain

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What are 2 transduction features of an A delta fibre?

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  1. 5-30 m/s
  2. Often well localised and sharp.
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What is the detection feature of an A delta fibre?

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First input that can be perceived.

  • Mechanical stimuli
  • Thermal stimuli >42 or <5 ºC
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What are the 2 transduction features of a C fibre?

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  1. 0.5 – 2.0 m/s for secondary often diffuse perception of input
  2. dull, burning.
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What are the 4 detection features of a C fibre?

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  1. Mechanical stimuli
  2. Thermal stimuli
  3. Chemical stimuli via acid sensing ion channels, transient receptor potentials or K+ ion channels.
  4. Many C fibres are silent nociceptors till activated by sensitisation.

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