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Lecture 17, 18: Pain Flashcards

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Discriminative pain

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Ability to perceive and localize

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Affective pain

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Behaviors and emotions that affect mood and motivation

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Pain information is carried in which spinal tract? Which fibers? What thalamic nuclei?

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Spinothalamic; Ad and C fibers; VPL and VPM (face)

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Affective pain nuclei in pons

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Parabrachial nucleus (ACh cells)

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Affective pain nuclei in midbrain

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Periaquaductal gray

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Affective pain nuclei in thalamus

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VM and MD (recieves a lot of limbic information, relays to PFC)

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Affective pain nuclei in forebrain

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Amygdala (fear), globus pallidus (mediates decision making)

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Affective pain nuclei in hypothalamus

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VMH

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MD projects to…

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Cingulate (and PFC)

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VM projects to…

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S1 and insula

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Limbic system contributes what to pain? What structures?

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Emotional content; amygdala/cingulate

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Motor/cognitive systems contribute what to pain? What structures?

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Motivation; GP, insula, cingulate, S1

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Hypothalamus contribute what to pain? What structures?

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Generation of appropriate beavhiors to threats; VMH

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Descending systems contribute what to pain? What structures?

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Transmission of nociceptive info back down to dorsal horn of spinal cord; amygdala, VMH, PAG, rostroventral medulla (parabrachial, LC, raphe)

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What structure directly projects to the descending systems of the spinal cord?

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PAG

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Raphe and LC nuclei project to what kind of dorsal horn neuron? What do these projects to? Effect?

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Local circuit inhibitory endogenous opioid neurons; Ad or C axons AND dendrites of neurons rising up the spinothalamic tract; diminish pain signal

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General types of pain disorders (4)

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Nociceptive, inflammatory, dysfunctional, neuropathic

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Nociceptive pain

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Physiological pain produced by noxious stimuli that achieves high-threshold nociceptor neurons, protective

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What fiber mediates first pain? Second pain?

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Ad; C

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Why is visceral pain able to generate referred pain?

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Cutaneous and visceral neurons carrying pain information converge on the same neuron in dorsal horn

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Inflammatory pain; always require stimulus?

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Pain hypersensitivty due to peripheral inflammation, adaptive and reversible (protects during healing); NO, pain at baseline AND a not necessarily a painful stimulus can worsen (allodynia and hyperalgesia)

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Allodynia and how? (pathway)

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Normally non-painful stimuli becomes painful (sunburn); Ab fibers and C fibers can both synapse on the same inhibitory local circuit neuron, which then synapses on spinothalamic system

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Hyperalgesia and how? What is this phenomenon called?

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Exaggerated response to a normally painful stimulus; enhanced synaptic signaling in dorsal horn between Ad/C fibers and spinothalamic tract; central sensitization

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Dysfunctional pain; always require stimulus?

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Same features as inflammatory pain, but w/out evidence of inflammation, neither protects nor supports healing (fibromyalgia); NO (can be spontaneous)

25
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Neuropathic pain; always require stimulus?

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Maladaptive plasticity caused by lesion/disease that alters nociceptive processing, can affect every stimulus in pain pathway, difficult to treat; NO

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Phantom limb pain arises from…

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Maladaptive reorganization of connections (plasticity/sprouting) in CNS centers, particularly S1

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Treatments of neuropathic pain (4)

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Antidepressants (enhances monoamine descending inhibitory control); anticonvulsants (block ectopic discharge and transmitter release); opioids (enhances endogenous opioid systems); cannabiniods (reduces pain-related activity in amygdala/cingulate); topical therapies (blast NTs out of pain pathways for temporary relief)

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Difficulties in treating neuropathic pathways (2)

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Synapses throughout CNS and PNS make targeting treatment difficult and opioids can co-opt reward pathways leading to addiction

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Structural features of local anesthetics (3)

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  1. Aromatic group (lipophilic); 2. Amino group (ionizable); 3. Linker region (amide vs ester)
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Duration of local anesthetics depends on…

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Lipophilicity (more lipophilic/longer chain, longer action)

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How does benzocaine’s structure make it unique?

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Non-ionizable, only topical

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Molecular target of local anesthetics…Structure? Where does the drug bind and how?

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VG-Na+ Channel; four domains w/ 6 transmembrane channels, S4 helices are voltage sensors that open w/ depolarization; binds w/in pore of channel from INTRACELLULAR side

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What form of local anesthetic has higher affinity for Na+ pore?

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Ionized

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Most LAs are weak/strong bases/acids with pKas between…

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Weak bases, 7.5 - 9

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If the tissue pH is lower, what is the effect on LAs?

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Less drug will be in the lipophilic form (less potent)

36
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About what percent of LAs passe into the membrane? What route?

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10%; “Intracelluar Route”

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If a drug is only in uncharged form, what route? Major/minor? Require activity of cell?

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Can diffuse INTO (not through) lipid bilayer and enter binding site = “Membrane Deliminated”; minor; cell does not have to be active

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LAs require the cell to be…This is called?

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Active (firing APs = open Na+ channel); “Use-dependent blockade”

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T/F: Is the axon cell membrane the only barrier to the therapeutic binding site?

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No! Epi/peri/endoneurium must also be transversed (requiring many transformations)

40
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Relate potency and hydrophobicity

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More hydrophobic accumulate in lipid bilayer = more potent (but slower)

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What fiber type is the most sensitive to LAs?

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C-type AND sympathetic post-ganglionic fibers (alpha receptors leading to vasodilation); Ad fibers also sensitive

42
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Why is a vasoconstrictor administered with a LA?

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Increases duration of effect and reduce systemic adverse effects

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Esters are hydrolyzed by…why is this important? What are they metabolized into? Why is this important?

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Pseudocholinesterases; metabolized locally so low risk of systemic effects; PABA = common hypersensitivty drug

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Amides are hydrolyzed by what and where? Why important?

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P-450 enzymes, liver (so require systemic circulation); greater risk of systemic effects, bad for pts with liver disease

45
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Adverse effects of LAs: CNS

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Sedation –> seizures and loss of consciousness

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Adverse effects of LAs: cardiac

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Block of cardiac Na+ channels (arrhythmias: AV-block; ventricular arrest)

47
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T/F: Cadiac effects before CNS

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False! CNS before cardio

48
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Routes of administration of LAs

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Topical, inject near a nerve (infiltration, field block, nerve block, epidural, spinal), regional block

49
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Cocaine

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Topical use on mucous membrane anesthetic, vasoconstrictor

50
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Procaine (novocaine)

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Infiltrate w/ low potency, slow onset, short duration

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Tetracaine

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Spinal block/topical w/ slow onset, but more potent/longer acting

52
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Benzocaine

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Non-ionzable, only surface

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Lidocaine

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Most common local anesthetic w/ rapid onset and high extraction by liver

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Prilocaine

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Side effect: methemoglobinemia (Fe3+ –> Fe2+ in hemoglobin)

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Bupivacaine

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Blocks sensory > motor neurons (good for labor)

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Ropivacaine

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Correct isomer of bupivacaine

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