Graded peripheral nerve injury creates mechanical allodynia proportional to the progression and severity of microglial activity within the spinal cord of male mice
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Graded peripheral nerve injury creates mechanical allodynia proportional to the progression and severity of microglial activity within the spinal cord of male mice
The reactivity of microglia within the spinal cord in response to nerve injury, has been associated with the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. However, the temporal changes in microglial reactivity following nerve injury remains to be defined. Importantly, the magnitude of behavioural allodynia displayed and the relationship to the phenotypic microglial changes is also unexplored. Using a heterozygous CX3CR1 gfp+ transgenic mouse strain, we monitored microglial activity as measured by cell density, morphology, process movement and process length over 14 days following chronic constriction of the sciatic nerve via in vivo confocal microscopy. Uniquely this relationship was explored in groups of male mice which had graded nerve injury and associated graded behavioural mechanical nociceptive sensitivity. Significant mechanical allodynia was quantified from the ipsilateral hind paw and this interacted with the extent of nerve injury from day 5 to day 14 (p
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