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How do thermal receptors perceive temperature?

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Separate receptors for cold to hot

43 degrees is perceived as pain (tissue damaging)

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What type of receptors respond to temperature in the skin?

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Free nerve endings

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What is the minimum temperature not perceived as pain?

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15 degrees

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What is the maximum temperature not perceived as pain?

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43 degrees

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What type of thermal receptors are most superficial and are in greater distribution?

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Cold receptors

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Is the distribution of thermal receptor in the skin uniform or not uniform?

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Not uniform

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What are the 6 temperature activated transient receptor potential ion channels?

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TRPA1
TRPM8
TRPV4
TRPV3
TRPV1
TRPV2
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Which temperature activated transient receptor potential ion channels respond to nociceptive stimuli?

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TRPA1, TRPV1, TRPV2

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Which temperature activated transient receptor potential ion channels respond to heat stimuli?

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TRPV1-4

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Which temperature activated transient receptor potential ion channels respond to cold stimuli?

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TRPM8, TRPA1

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Describe the first and second pain.

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Early, sharp pain carried by Ad(delta) fibres followed by a later, dull burning pain carried by C-fibres

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What are the afferent axon types of free nerve endings in nociception?

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Ad(delta) fibre mechano-heat sensitive

C fibre mechano-heat sensitive

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What are the characteristics of C-fibres?

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Slow conduction

Unmyelinated (thinner)

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What are the characteristics of A fibres?

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Rapid conduction

Myelinated

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What can activate nociceptors?

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High intensity and thermal stimuli
Chemical stimuli (inflammation)
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What are the three modalities mediated by the spinothalamic tract?

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Non-discriminative touch
Innocuous temperature sensation
Nociception

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What modalities are mediated by Ad(delta) fibres?

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Non-discriminative touch
Innocuous temperature sensation
Nociception

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What modalities are mediated by C fibres?

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Innocuous temperature sensation

Nociception

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What activates TRPV1?

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Noxious temperatures (>43 degrees)
Capsaicin
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In what afferent fibres are TRPV1 expressed in?

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Both Ad(delta)and C fibres

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Describe the pathway of the afferent fibres from when they enter the spinal cord to the formation of spinothalamic tract

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Delta and C fibres enter dorsal roots
Passes through Lissauer’s tract (zone) in grey matter
Travel 1-2 levels before entering dorsal horn
Synapse with 2nd order neurons in Rexed’s laminate I-V (anterolateral system)
Ascend spinal cord contra laterally via spinothalamic tract

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Which lamina in Rexed’s lamina contains substantia gelatinosa?

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Lamina II

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What is the relevance of Rexed’s lamina II to temperature and nociception?

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It contains substantia gelatinosa which modulates temperature and nociceptive afferents

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Decribe the segmental organisation of the spinothalamic tract.

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From anterior to lateral

Pressure - touch - pain - temperature

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What are the pain pathways for visceral innervation?
``` Vagus nerve Splanchnic nerves (ganglion) ```
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What type of stimuli do visceral nociceptors respond to?
Stretch | Various chemicals
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What type of fibres receive visceral nociceptive stimuli?
C fibres
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What are the three categories of pain?
Nociceptive Inflammatory Neuropathic
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What are the characteristics of nociceptive type pain?
Brief pain Normal response to acute tissue injury Stimulus-dependent Protects by signalling potential tissue damage
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Where does the spinothalamic and trigmeniothalamic terminate?
Thalamus ventral posterior nuclei
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From where does sensory information terminate in the VPL?
Information from the body
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From where does sensory information terminate in the VPM?
Information from the face
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Where does the spinothalamic tract project to other than the thalamic VPN?
Reticular formation and parabrachial nucleus Cingulate and insula cortex Amygdala and hypothalamus
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What are projections of the spinothalamic tract to the Reticular formation and parabrachial nucleus associated with?
Arousal component of pain
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What are projections of the spinothalamic tract to the cingulate and insula cortex associated with?
Signalling unpleasant and autonomic components of pain response (respectively)
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What are projections of the spinothalamic tract to the amygdala and hympothalamus associated with?
Amygdala: Fear and anxiety response Hypothalamus: Autonomic response to pain
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What are the nerve fibre(s) associated with low intensity, non-noxious stimuli?
Aß fibres
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What are the nerve fibre(s) associated with high intensity, noxious stimuli?
Ad(delta) and C fibres
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What part of the spinal cord do Aß, delta and C fibres transverse?
Dorsal horn via peripheral nerve and dorsal root ganglion
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What are the characteristics of inflammatory type pain?
Active inflammation is present Spontaneous/stimulus dependent (low and high intensity) Long term (persistent) but reversible Protects by producing pain hypersensitivity during healing (peripheral /central sensitisation)
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What are the overall mechanisms/processes involved in inflammatory pain?
Peripheral sensation Central sensitisation and wind up Long term potentiation
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Describe the process of peripheral sensitisation of nociceptors
Activation/augmentation of nociceptor fibres (by inflammatory mediators eg platelets, bradykinin, histamine) Release of neuropeptides substance P and Calcitonin Gene-Related Peptide (CGRP) Causes histamine release from mast cells, vasodilation and plasma extravasation Histamine decreases threshold for nociceptive activation - hyperalgesia (increased sensitivity of pain)
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What does the release of substance P and CGRP cause?
Plasma extravasation Histamine release Vasodilation
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What process is associated with hyperalgesia?
Histamine release that decreases the threshold for nociceptive activation in peripheral sensitisation
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What is central sensitisation?
Enhancement, potentiation or facilitation of synaptic activity in dorsal horn to generate AP's in 2nd order neurons
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What is central sensitisation typically associated with?
Chronic tissue damage/inflammation
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What are two possible responses of central sensitisation of nociceptors?
Hyperalgesia: increased pain sensitivity Allodynia: pain due to stimulus that does not normally provoke pain
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Describe the process of wind up and central sensitisation.
Repeated high intensity noxious stimuli C-fibre stimulation (increased synaptic activity in dorsal horn) "Wind up": release of glutamate, substance P and CGRP (neurotransmitters) Increases duration of post synaptic depolarisation of 2nd order neuron by decreased threshold/increasing sensitivity (summation) and increased receptor fields Removal of voltage-dependant Mg2+ block from NMDA receptors Increase influx of Ca2+ triggers long term potentiation/increased release if glutamate
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Describe the process of long term potentiation.
Influx of Ca2+ due to opening of NMDAR channels Enhances glutamate release (protein kinases in post synaptic neuron) Results in insertion of new AMPA receptors into post synaptic membrane Increased sensitivity to glutamate
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What are the characteristics of neuropathic pain?
Nervous system lesion or disease present Spontaneous/stimulus dependent (low and high intensity) Long term (persistent)but reversible Protects by producing pain hypersensitivity during healing (peripheral /central sensitisation)
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How are pain signal modulated as they travel along sensory pathways?
The gate control theory
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Describe the gate-control theory.
Neural gating mechanism Increased touch/skin mechanoreceptor stimulation (rubbing injured area) - Aß fibres Increase afferent signals from mechano receptors to dorsal horn Blockage of noxious afferents (C fibres) at same spinal cord level due to increased touch afferents
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Describe the mechanisms of pain modulation by descending pathways?
Somatic sensory cortex sends impulses to the hypothalamus Hypothalamus stimulates periaqueductal grey matter in brain stem to initiate an analgesic impulse Analgesic impulse to raphe nucleus in brain stem then down spinal cord in dorsolateral tracts At spinal cord level, analgesic neurons release endogenous opioids (enkephalins) to inhibit release of substance P from presynaptic neuron and inhibits stimulation of 2nd order neuron (block nociceptive pathway)
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Where is the periaqueductal grey matter located?
Brainstem - surrounding cerebral aqueduct in midbrain
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What is the function of the periaqueductal grey matter?
Relay/coordination centre for analgesic system (descending pain modulation pathway)
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What neurotransmitter is involved in the inhibition (modulation) of nociceptive transmission in the descending pathway.
Endogenous opioids - enkephalin

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