Intrathecal injection of spironolactone attenuates radicular pain by inhibition of spinal microglia activation in a rat model.

Microglia might play an important role in nociceptive processing and hyperalgesia by neuroinflammatory process. Mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) expressed on microglia might play a central role in the modulation of microglia activity. However the roles of microglia and MR in radicular pain were not w...

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Main Authors: Yu-e Sun, Liangyu Peng, Xiaofeng Sun, Jinhua Bo, Dong Yang, Yaguo Zheng, Chenglong Liu, Beibei Zhu, Zhengliang Ma, Xiaoping Gu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3387194?pdf=render