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Enhanced excitability of dissociated primary sensory neurons after chronic compression of the dorsal root ganglion in the rat.

Pain 2005 January
A chronic compression of the dorsal root ganglion (CCD) produces ipsilateral cutaneous hyperalgesia and allodynia in rats. Intracellular electrophysiological recordings from formerly compressed neurons in the intact dorsal root ganglion (DRG) reveal lower than normal current thresholds (CTs) and abnormal spontaneous activity (SA) (Zhang JM, Song XJ, LaMotte RH. Enhanced excitability of sensory neurons in rats with cutaneous hyperalgesia produced by chronic compression of the dorsal root ganglion. J Neurophysiol 1999;82:3359-66). To determine if the neuronal hyperexcitability is intrinsic to the soma, L4 and L5 DRG neurons from rats that had prior CCD surgery or those that did not (controls) were dissociated, and intracellular recordings obtained 3-8 h (acute) or 24-30 h (1d) after culture. The CTs of large- (>45 microm diameter) and medium- (30 approximately 45 microm) sized neurons from control rats after acute or 1d culture were similar to those formerly recorded from the intact DRG and significantly lower for CCD than for control rats. However, the CTs of small- (

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