At the spinal level, nociceptin/orphanin FQ (Noc/OFQ) produces pronociceptive and allodynic effects at low doses (picogram range), while causing antinociceptive effects at high doses (microgram range). The discrepancy of pain modulation by Noc/OFQ at low and high doses raised a question whether Noc/OFQ exerted actions through the same Noc/OFQ receptor. In the present study, we examined the involvement of the Noc/OFQ receptor in pain responses with the novel nonpeptide antagonist N-(4-amino-2-methylquinolin-6-yl)-2-(4-ethylphenoxymethyl) benzamide monohydrochloride (JTC-801). Allodynia and hyperalgesia evoked by intrathecal administration of Noc/OFQ (50 pg/mouse) were dose dependently blocked by simultaneous administration of JTC-801 with IC 50 values of 32.2 and 363 pg, respectively. JTC-801 did not induce allodynia by itself. Subcutaneous injection of formalin into a hindpaw evoked biphasic pain behaviors such as flinching and biting in mice. Noc/OFQ at 10 pg increased the second-phase pain behaviors evoked by 1% formalin, whereas it strongly inhibited both the first-phase and second-phase pain evoked by 2% formalin at 1 g. Although the pronociceptive effect by 10 pg of Noc/OFQ was dose dependently blocked by JTC-801 with an IC 50 value of 4.58 pg, the antinociceptive effects by 1 g of Noc/OFQ were not antagonized by JTC-801. Furthermore, both phases of 2% formalin-induced pain behaviors were relieved by JTC-801. These results demonstrate that pronociceptive responses induced by a low dose of Noc/OFQ may be mediated through the Noc/OFQ receptor in the spinal cord and that JTC-801 can be a useful antagonist to examine the involvement of endogenous Noc/OFQ and mediation of the Noc/OFQ receptor under physiological and pathophysiological conditions including pain.
A 3-month-old male infant was referred to our department with a generalized brown, thickened leathery skin and blisters which had been present since birth; the blisters developed recurrently at sites of minor trauma, healing without scar formation, although Darier's sign was positive. Microscopically, biopsy specimens showed a dense dermal band-like infiltrate with mast cells, whereas a biopsy from a vesicle showed subepidermal bulla formation. Physical examination did not reveal any systemic involvement with mastocytosis and the patient was treated with cyproheptadine, which has considerable anti-serotonin activity and, interestingly, reduced the degree of blistering; this treatment might therefore be tried in other cases.
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