PMID- 30560396 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190507 LR - 20211204 IS - 1573-6903 (Electronic) IS - 0364-3190 (Linking) VI - 44 IP - 2 DP - 2019 Feb TI - Suberoylanilide Hydroxamic Acid Triggers Autophagy by Influencing the mTOR Pathway in the Spinal Dorsal Horn in a Rat Neuropathic Pain Model. PG - 450-464 LID - 10.1007/s11064-018-2698-1 [doi] AB - Histone acetylation levels can be upregulated by treating cells with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACIs), which can induce autophagy. Autophagy flux in the spinal cord of rats following the left fifth lumber spinal nerve ligation (SNL) is involved in the progression of neuropathic pain. Suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), one of the HDACIs can interfere with the epigenetic process of histone acetylation, which has been shown to ease neuropathic pain. Recent research suggest that SAHA can stimulate autophagy via the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway in some types of cancer cells. However, little is known about the role of SAHA and autophagy in neuropathic pain after nerve injury. In the present study, we aim to investigate autophagy flux and the role of the mTOR pathway on spinal cells autophagy activation in neuropathic pain induced by SNL in rats that received SAHA treatment. Autophagy-related proteins and mTOR or its active form were assessed by using western blot, immunohistochemistry, double immunofluorescence staining and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). We found that SAHA decreased the paw mechanical withdrawal threshold (PMWT) of the lower compared with SNL. Autophagy flux was mainly disrupted in the astrocytes and neuronal cells of the spinal cord dorsal horn on postsurgical day 28 and was reversed by daily intrathecal injection of SAHA (n = 100 nmol/day or n = 200 nmol/day). SAHA also decreased mTOR and phosphorylated mTOR (p-mTOR) expression, especially p-mTOR expression in astrocytes and neuronal cells of the spinal dorsal horn. These results suggest that SAHA attenuates neuropathic pain and contributes to autophagy flux in astrocytes and neuronal cells of the spinal dorsal horn via the mTOR signaling pathway. FAU - Feng, Xiang-Lan AU - Feng XL AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169 Donghu Rd, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. FAU - Deng, Hong-Bo AU - Deng HB AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169 Donghu Rd, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. FAU - Wang, Zheng-Gang AU - Wang ZG AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169 Donghu Rd, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. FAU - Wu, Yun AU - Wu Y AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169 Donghu Rd, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. FAU - Ke, Jian-Juan AU - Ke JJ AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169 Donghu Rd, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. FAU - Feng, Xiao-Bo AU - Feng XB AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3065-7949 AD - Department of Anesthesiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, No. 169 Donghu Rd, Wuhan, 430071, Hubei, China. lananesthesia@sina.com. LA - eng GR - 81471858/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ GR - WJ2017M036/Hubei Provincial Population and Family Planning Commission/ PT - Journal Article DEP - 20181217 PL - United States TA - Neurochem Res JT - Neurochemical research JID - 7613461 RN - 0 (Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors) RN - 58IFB293JI (Vorinostat) RN - EC 2.7.1.1 (mTOR protein, rat) RN - EC 2.7.11.1 (TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Astrocytes/drug effects/metabolism MH - Autophagy/*drug effects MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors/metabolism/pharmacology MH - Male MH - Neuralgia/*drug therapy/metabolism MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Signal Transduction/drug effects MH - Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn/drug effects/metabolism MH - Spinal Nerves/drug effects/injuries MH - TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*drug effects MH - Vorinostat/*pharmacology OTO - NOTNLM OT - Autophagy flux OT - Histone deacetylase inhibitor OT - Mammalian target of rapamycin OT - Neuropathic pain OT - Spinal dorsal horn EDAT- 2018/12/19 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/08 06:00 CRDT- 2018/12/19 06:00 PHST- 2018/07/28 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/12/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/11/05 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/12/19 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/12/19 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s11064-018-2698-1 [pii] AID - 10.1007/s11064-018-2698-1 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Neurochem Res. 2019 Feb;44(2):450-464. doi: 10.1007/s11064-018-2698-1. Epub 2018 Dec 17.