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Byrd K, Lund M, Pan Y, Chung BH, Child K, Fowler D, Burns-Martin J, Sanikommu M, Henderson H, Gregory C, Fleming RK, Xie JY. Potential mechanisms for osteopathic manipulative treatment to alleviate migraine-like pain in female rats. FRONTIERS IN PAIN RESEARCH 2024; 5:1280589. [PMID: 38380374 PMCID: PMC10877942 DOI: 10.3389/fpain.2024.1280589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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Introduction Migraines are the leading cause of disability in the United States, and the use of non-pharmaceutical treatments like osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has shown promise. Despite its potential, the lack of mechanistic understanding has hindered widespread adoption. This study aims to investigate the efficacy of OMT in treating acute migraines and unravel its underlying mechanisms of action. Methods Female rats were subjected to a "two-hit" approach to induce migraine-like pain. This involved bilateral injections of Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) into the trapezius muscle (1st hit) followed by exposure to Umbellulone, a human migraine trigger, on Day 6 post-CFA (2nd hit). Soft tissue and articulatory techniques were applied to the cervical region for acute abortive or repeated prophylactic treatment. Cutaneous allodynia and trigeminal system activation were assessed through behavioral tests and immunohistochemical staining. Results Following Umbellulone inhalation, CFA-primed rats exhibited periorbital and hind paw allodynia. Immediate application of OMT after Umbellulone inhalation as an abortive treatment partially alleviated cutaneous allodynia. With OMT applied thrice as a prophylactic measure, complete suppression of tactile hypersensitivity was observed. Prophylactic OMT also prevented the increase of c-fos signals in the trigeminal nucleus caudalis and the elevation of calcitonin gene-related peptide expression in trigeminal ganglia induced by CFA and Umbellulone exposure at 2 h post-inhalation. Discussion These findings provide mechanistic insights into OMT's migraine-relief potential and underscore its viability as a non-pharmacological avenue for managing migraines.
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- Katherine Byrd
- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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- Department of Biomedical and Anatomical Sciences, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, United States
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The trigeminal pathways. J Neurol 2022; 269:3443-3460. [DOI: 10.1007/s00415-022-11002-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2021] [Revised: 01/29/2022] [Accepted: 01/29/2022] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Terrier LM, Fontaine D. Intracranial nociception. Rev Neurol (Paris) 2021; 177:765-772. [PMID: 34384629 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurol.2021.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2021] [Revised: 07/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Understanding intracranial nociceptive innervation is essential to understand the pathophysiology of headaches. Our knowledge about human intracranial nociception comes from sparse observations during neurosurgical procedures performed in awake patients, from human anatomical studies and from experimental studies in animals. In this article we review the anatomical and functional organization underlying nociceptive innervation. Intracranial nociception is mainly mediated by the trigeminal system, except in the posterior cranial fossa that is innervated by the first cervical roots. For decades, the dura mater, its vessels and major cerebral blood vessels were considered as the only intracranial pain-sensitive structures. Recent animal and human studies have suggested that smaller brain arteries and potentially pia mater might also be pain sensitive. Nociceptive neurons innervating intracranial blood vessels project via the ophthalmic division (V1) to the trigeminal ganglion and store several neurotransmitters including glutamate, substance P and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). The trigeminal ganglion, root and brainstem nuclei have a specific topographic and functional somatotopy. Progressive transition between the trigeminal spinal nucleus and the dorsal horn of the cervical spinal cord, and convergence of nociceptive inputs from the face, intracranial structures and the occipital area on the so-called "trigemino-cervical complex" may explain some headache features, relations between facial and occipital pain, and efficacy of occipital nerve stimulation in headache. The specific anatomic organization of the trigeminal system, from the primary-order neuron in the trigeminal ganglion, to the second-order neuron is the trigeminal nuclei, may explain a part of the various characteristics of headaches.
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- L-M Terrier
- Department of Neurosurgery, CHRU de Tours, U1253, 10, Boulevard Tonnellé, 37032 Tours, France; UMR 1253, ibrain, Université de Tours, Inserm, Tours, France.
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- Department of Neurosurgery, CHU de Nice, Université Cote d'Azur, Nice, France; Université Cote d'Azur, FHU INOVPAIN, CHU de Nice, Nice, France
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Background Migraine limb pain may be under-recognized in adults and children. There is little information about familial forms of this disorder. Objectives To describe the clinical and inheritance patterns of familial migraine limb pain over four generations and to review the evidence for limb pain as a manifestation of migraine. Methods Prospective clinical and pedigree analysis with an 8-year follow-up of 27 family members. Results Eight members of the family had benign recurrent limb pain associated with headache in a dominant inheritance pattern. Limb pain occurred before, during or after the headache, with probable or definite migraine with aura, migraine without aura and lower-half headache. The limb pain fulfilled the International Headache Society criteria for aura in six patients and also occurred without headache in three. Four members of the family had recurrent abdominal pain and/or motion sickness in childhood. Conclusions This is the first report of dominant familial limb pain temporally associated with migraine headache, starting in adulthood or starting in childhood and continuing into adulthood. A search for a genetic marker is indicated. Limb pain should be included as a childhood periodic syndrome linked to migraine and recognized as part of the migraine spectrum in adults.
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- Heather Angus-Leppan
- 1 Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.,2 University College London, UK
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- 3 Faculty of Medicine and Hospital Clinico, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.,4 Imperial College, London, UK
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Ge HY, Wang K, Madeleine P, Svensson P, Sessle BJ, Arendt-Nielsen L. Simultaneous modulation of the exteroceptive suppression periods in the trapezius and temporalis muscles by experimental muscle pain. Clin Neurophysiol 2004; 115:1399-408. [PMID: 15134708 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2004.01.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 01/26/2004] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the exteroceptive suppression (ES) periods in the trapezius and temporalis muscles could be simultaneously modulated by either experimental trapezius muscle pain or temporalis muscle pain. METHODS Fourteen healthy volunteers participated in two sessions with randomised injections of either hypertonic or isotonic saline into the right trapezius muscle or right temporalis muscle. The pain intensity was continuously scored on a 10 cm electronic visual analogue scale. During muscle contraction, the early (ES1) and late (ES2) reflex in the temporalis and late (ES2) reflex in the trapezius elicited by electrical stimulation of the right infraorbital nerve were recorded pre-, during-, and post-injection. RESULTS Hypertonic saline injection induced local muscle pain and referred pain with the maximal pain intensity of 6.3+/-0.5 cm in the right trapezius and 6.7+/-0.6 cm in the right temporalis muscles. Injection of either hypertonic or isotonic saline into the right trapezius muscle was associated with significantly shortened ES2 duration and offset time in the injected right trapezius muscle. Only injection of hypertonic saline into the right trapezius muscle could significantly reduce the ES2 offset time and decrease the degree of suppression of ES2 in the right temporalis and left trapezius muscles. Injection of either hypertonic or isotonic saline into the right trapezius muscle evoked no changes in ES2 parameters in the left temporalis muscle. Injection of hypertonic saline, but not isotonic saline, into the right temporalis muscle caused a significantly shorter ES2 offset time and shorter ES2 duration bilaterally in the temporalis and trapezius muscles. CONCLUSIONS The findings of the present study provide evidence for a bi-directional effects reflecting convergence of muscle afferents from the trigeminal and upper cervical neural systems in humans, which may partly underlie the manifestations of pain referral between these two areas.
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- Hong-You Ge
- Laboratory For Experimental Pain Research, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers Vej 7 D-3, DK-9220 Aalborg, Denmark
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Piovesan EJ, Kowacs PA, Tatsui CE, Lange MC, Ribas LC, Werneck LC. Referred pain after painful stimulation of the greater occipital nerve in humans: evidence of convergence of cervical afferences on trigeminal nuclei. Cephalalgia 2001; 21:107-9. [PMID: 11422092 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.2001.00166.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 114] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cranial sensory innervation is supplied mainly by the trigeminal nerves and by the first cervical nerves. Excitatory and inhibitory interactions among those nerve roots may occur in a mechanism called nociceptive convergence, leading to loss of somato-sensory spatial specificity. Three volunteers in an experimental trial had sterile water injected over their greater occipital nerve on one side of the neck. Pain intensity was evaluated 10, 30 and 120 s after the injection. Two of the patients reported intense pain. Trigeminal autonomic features, suggestive of parasympathetic activation, were seen associated with trigeminally distributed pain. These data add to and reinforce previous evidence of convergence of cervical afferents on the trigeminal sensory circuit.
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- E J Piovesan
- Setor de Cefaléias, Especialidade de Neurologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
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Lambert GA, Shimomura T, Boers PM, Gordon V, Donaldson C, Zagami AS. Serotonin infusions inhibit sensory input from the dural vasculature. Cephalalgia 1999; 19:639-50. [PMID: 10524657 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1999.019007639.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Intravenous infusions of serotonin (5-hydroxtryptamine creatinine sulphate, 5HT, 50-300 microg/kg/min) in cats reversibly inhibited the responses of cervical spinal cord neurons to electrical stimulation of the superior sagittal sinus. Inhibition developed over 20-30 min and resolved over the same time course, suggesting a dependence on accumulation of 5HT in the central nervous system. Inhibition was suppressed by prior intravenous injection of the 5HT antagonists methysergide (1 mg/kg) and methiothepin (1 mg/kg). Infusions of 5HT (50 microg/kg/min) caused a rise in whole blood levels of 5HT by a factor of 1.5 of control values. 5HT levels in platelet-free plasma rose by a factor of 50. Levels of 5HT and 5 hydroxyindole acetic acid released into the cerebrospinal fluid rose significantly. The results suggest that earlier clinical observations that 5HT infusions can ameliorate the pain of migraine may not have been due to cranial vasoconstriction alone, but could have involved a central action of 5HT.
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- G A Lambert
- Institute of Neurological Sciences, The Prince Henry Hospital, University of New South Wales, Little Bay, Australia.
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Angus-Leppan H, Lambert GA, Michalicek J. Convergence of occipital nerve and superior sagittal sinus input in the cervical spinal cord of the cat. Cephalalgia 1997; 17:625-30; discussion 623. [PMID: 9350381 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1997.1706625.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Co-existence of facial and occipital pain may occur in occipital neuralgia, migraine and cluster headache; suggesting convergence of trigeminal and cervical afferents. Such convergence has been shown in humans and other animals, but the site and extent of this are uncertain. In anaesthetized adult cats, the superior sagittal sinus and occipital nerve were stimulated electrically, and extracellular recordings made in the dorsolateral area of the upper cervical cord using glass-coated tungsten electrodes. Of 49 units in 10 cats, 33 (67%) had input from the superior sagittal sinus and the occipital nerve. Thirteen (27%) had superior sagittal sinus input and 3 (6%) had occipital nerve input. Convergent receptive fields were identified mechanically in 7 units. These experiments in cats show convergent input from occipital nerve and superior sagittal sinus on dorsolateral area units in two-thirds of cases studied. This experimental site of trigeminocervical convergence may relate to referral of pain in occipital neuralgia and other headaches.
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- H Angus-Leppan
- Institute of Neurological Sciences, Prince of Wales Hospital, Australia
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Angus-Leppan H, Olausson B, Boers P, Lambert GA. Convergence of afferents from superior sagittal sinus and tooth pulp on cells in the upper cervical spinal cord of the cat. Neurosci Lett 1994; 182:275-8. [PMID: 7715826 DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(94)90815-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Units in the dorsolateral area of the upper cervical cord respond to craniovascular stimulation. This study examined tooth pulp responses in this area in cats. Eleven of 21 units tested in the dorsolateral area had convergent inputs from superior sagittal sinus and tooth pulp; while 10 units had sagittal sinus, but not tooth pulp, input. Mean response latency to tooth pulp stimulation (25.8 ms) was significantly longer than to superior sagittal sinus stimulation (9.8 ms). Half of the units had cutaneous receptive fields; and in five units, action potentials could be evoked by electrical stimulation in the posterior complex of the thalamus.
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- H Angus-Leppan
- Institute of Neurological Sciences, Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, Australia
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