PMID- 25050075 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE DCOM- 20140722 LR - 20211021 IS - 1178-7090 (Print) IS - 1178-7090 (Electronic) IS - 1178-7090 (Linking) VI - 7 DP - 2014 TI - Up-regulation of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the dorsal root ganglion of the rat bone cancer pain model. PG - 415-23 LID - 10.2147/JPR.S63527 [doi] AB - Metastatic bone cancer causes severe pain, but current treatments often provide insufficient pain relief. One of the reasons is that mechanisms underlying bone cancer pain are not solved completely. Our previous studies have shown that brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), known as a member of the neurotrophic family, is an important molecule in the pathological pain state in some pain models. We hypothesized that expression changes of BDNF may be one of the factors related to bone cancer pain; in this study, we investigated changes of BDNF expression in dorsal root ganglia in a rat bone cancer pain model. As we expected, BDNF mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) and protein were significantly increased in L3 dorsal root ganglia after intra-tibial inoculation of MRMT-1 rat breast cancer cells. Among the eleven splice-variants of BDNF mRNA, exon 1-9 variant increased predominantly. Interestingly, the up-regulation of BDNF is localized in small neurons (mostly nociceptive neurons) but not in medium or large neurons (non-nociceptive neurons). Further, expression of nerve growth factor (NGF), which is known as a specific promoter of BDNF exon 1-9 variant, was significantly increased in tibial bone marrow. Our findings suggest that BDNF is a key molecule in bone cancer pain, and NGF-BDNF cascade possibly develops bone cancer pain. FAU - Tomotsuka, Naoto AU - Tomotsuka N AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Kaku, Ryuji AU - Kaku R AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Obata, Norihiko AU - Obata N AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Matsuoka, Yoshikazu AU - Matsuoka Y AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Kanzaki, Hirotaka AU - Kanzaki H AD - Department of Pharmacy, Okayama University Hospital, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Taniguchi, Arata AU - Taniguchi A AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Muto, Noriko AU - Muto N AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Omiya, Hiroki AU - Omiya H AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Itano, Yoshitaro AU - Itano Y AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Sato, Tadasu AU - Sato T AD - Department of Oral and Craniofacial Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan. FAU - Ichikawa, Hiroyuki AU - Ichikawa H AD - Department of Oral and Craniofacial Anatomy, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Sendai, Japan. FAU - Mizobuchi, Satoshi AU - Mizobuchi S AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. FAU - Morimatsu, Hiroshi AU - Morimatsu H AD - Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20140711 PL - New Zealand TA - J Pain Res JT - Journal of pain research JID - 101540514 PMC - PMC4103927 OTO - NOTNLM OT - BDNF OT - bone cancer pain OT - chronic pain OT - nerve growth factor EDAT- 2014/07/23 06:00 MHDA- 2014/07/23 06:01 PMCR- 2014/07/11 CRDT- 2014/07/23 06:00 PHST- 2014/07/23 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/07/23 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/07/23 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2014/07/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - jpr-7-415 [pii] AID - 10.2147/JPR.S63527 [doi] PST - epublish SO - J Pain Res. 2014 Jul 11;7:415-23. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S63527. eCollection 2014.