PMID- 9573398 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 19980619 LR - 20190614 IS - 0006-8993 (Print) IS - 0006-8993 (Linking) VI - 789 IP - 2 DP - 1998 Apr 13 TI - Serotonin-induced population primary afferent depolarisation in vitro: the effects of neonatal capsaicin treatment. PG - 339-42 AB - The effect of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on population primary afferent depolarisation (PAD) has been studied using in vitro spinal cord preparations from normal and capsaicin pre-treated (neonatal subcutaneous injection; 75 mg kg-1) rats aged 10-14 days. In preparations from untreated rats, the concentration-response curve for PAD in response to 0.1-100 microM 5-HT was bell-shaped but in the capsaicin pre-treated group, a non-saturating 5-HT-induced PAD concentration-response curve was generated. Quantitatively, the mean PAD responses to 0.1-10 microM 5-HT were of a greater amplitude in the control group compared to the capsaicin pre-treated group (p