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Sex-related differences in human pain and rat afferent discharge evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.

Abstract：

:Animal studies have suggested that tissue injury-related increased levels of glutamate may be involved in peripheral nociceptive mechanisms in deep craniofacial tissues. Indeed, injection of glutamate (0.1-1 M, 10 microl) into the temporomandibular region evokes reflex jaw muscle responses through activation of peripheral excitatory amino acid receptors. It has recently been found that this glutamate-evoked reflex muscle activity is significantly greater in female than male rats. However, it is not known whether peripheral administration of glutamate, in the same concentrations that evoke jaw muscle activity in rats, causes pain in humans or activates deep craniofacial nociceptive afferents. Therefore we examined whether injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle induces pain in male and female volunteers and, since masseter afferent recordings were not feasible in humans, whether glutamate excites putative nociceptive afferents supplying the masseter muscle of male and female rats. Injection of glutamate (0.5 M or 1.0 M, 0.2 ml) into the masseter muscle of both men and women caused significantly higher levels of peak pain, duration of pain, and overall pain than injection of isotonic saline (0.2 ml). In addition, glutamate-evoked peak and overall muscle pain in women was significantly greater than in men. In rats of both sexes, glutamate (10 microl, 0.5 M) evoked activity in a subpopulation of masseter muscle afferents (n = 36) that projected to the subnucleus caudalis, an important relay of noxious input from the craniofacial region. The largest responses to glutamate were recorded in muscle afferents with the slowest conduction velocities (2.5-5 m/s). Further, glutamate-evoked masseter muscle afferent activity was significantly greater in female than in male rats. These results indicate that glutamate injection into the masseter muscle evokes pain responses that are greater in women than men and that one possible mechanism for this difference may be a greater sensitivity to glutamate of masseter muscle afferents in females. These sex-related differences in acute experimental masseter muscle pain are particularly interesting given the higher prevalence of many chronic muscle pain conditions in women.

journal_name

J Neurophysiol

journal_title

Journal of neurophysiology

authors

Cairns BE,Hu JW,Arendt-Nielsen L,Sessle BJ,Svensson P

doi

10.1152/jn.2001.86.2.782

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-08-01 00:00:00

pages

782-91

issue

eissn

0022-3077

issn

1522-1598

journal_volume

pub_type

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Sex-related differences in human pain and rat afferent discharge evoked by injection of glutamate into the masseter muscle.