Abstract:
:The effect of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) on the slow ventral root potential, which is related to nociceptive transmission, was investigated in the isolated spinal cord of a newborn rat. DMSO at 0.3-1% (v/v) enhanced the slow ventral root potential, but not mono- and polysynaptic reflex discharges. DMSO at 1% also enhanced the depolarization induced by substance P or capsaicin. In the presence of tetrodotoxin (0.3 microM), DMSO at 1% did not influence the substance P-induced depolarization but enhanced the acetylcholine-induced depolarization. Edrophonium at 10 microM also enhanced the slow ventral root potential, and the magnitude of the effect was comparable to that of 1% DMSO. In the presence of atropine (0.3 microM) and hexamethonium (30 microM), the effect of edrophonium disappeared, but half of the effect of DMSO remained. Artificial cerebrospinal fluid containing either 0.87% (w/v) urea or 4.6% (w/v) sucrose, which has the same osmotic pressure as that containing 1% DMSO, did not have the same effect as DMSO on the slow ventral root potential. In the saphenous nerve-dorsal root preparation, the compound action potential was enhanced by 4-aminopyridine (10 microM), but was not affected by DMSO up to 3%. The results suggest that DMSO enhances the slow ventral root potential through mechanisms based on the inhibition of cholinesterase activity and other action(s) involved in increasing transmitter release from nerve endings in nociceptive transmission pathways in the isolated spinal cord of the newborn rat. Neither the blockade of K+ channels nor hyperosmotic effects are likely mechanisms of DMSO action.
journal_name
Eur J Pharmacoljournal_title
European journal of pharmacologyauthors
Kubota K,Fujibayashi K,Saito Kdoi
10.1016/s0014-2999(98)00313-6subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-06-19 00:00:00pages
173-9issue
2eissn
0014-2999issn
1879-0712pii
S0014-2999(98)00313-6journal_volume
351pub_type
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