Title |
p300 Exerts an Epigenetic Role in Chronic Neuropathic Pain through its Acetyltransferase Activity in Rats following Chronic Constriction Injury (CCI)
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Published in |
Molecular Pain, January 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1744-8069-8-84 |
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Authors |
Xiao-Yan Zhu, Chang-Sheng Huang, Qian Li, Rui-min Chang, Zong-bing Song, Wang-yuan Zou, Qu-Lian Guo |
Abstract |
Neuropathic pain is detrimental to human health; however, its pathogenesis still remains largely unknown. Overexpression of pain-associated genes and increased nociceptive somato-sensitivity are well observed in neuropathic pain. The importance of epigenetic mechanisms in regulating the expression of pro- or anti-nociceptive genes has been revealed by studies recently, and we hypothesize that the transcriptional coactivator and the histone acetyltransferase E1A binding protein p300 (p300), as a part of the epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation, may be involved in the pathogenesis of neuropathic pain induced by chronic constriction injury (CCI). To test this hypothesis, two different approaches were used in this study: (I) down-regulating p300 with specific small hairpin RNA (shRNA) and (II) chemical inhibition of p300 acetyltransferase activity by a small molecule inhibitor, C646. |
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