학술논문

Identifying genetic determinants of inflammatory pain in mice using a large-scale gene-targeted screen
Document Type
article
Source
Pain. 163(6)
Subject
Biomedical and Clinical Sciences
Neurosciences
Clinical Sciences
Basic Behavioral and Social Science
Genetics
Pain Research
Chronic Pain
Behavioral and Social Science
Biotechnology
Aetiology
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
Animals
Freund's Adjuvant
Mice
Mice
Knockout
Nociception
Pain
Pain Measurement
Nocifensive behavior
Sensitization
Formalin
Hargreaves
von Frey
Complete Freund's adjuvant
Single-gene knockout mouse
Screen
IMPC
Comorbidity
Autism
International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium
Medical and Health Sciences
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Anesthesiology
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Health sciences
Psychology
Language
Abstract
AbstractIdentifying the genetic determinants of pain is a scientific imperative given the magnitude of the global health burden that pain causes. Here, we report a genetic screen for nociception, performed under the auspices of the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium. A biased set of 110 single-gene knockout mouse strains was screened for 1 or more nociception and hypersensitivity assays, including chemical nociception (formalin) and mechanical and thermal nociception (von Frey filaments and Hargreaves tests, respectively), with or without an inflammatory agent (complete Freund's adjuvant). We identified 13 single-gene knockout strains with altered nocifensive behavior in 1 or more assays. All these novel mouse models are openly available to the scientific community to study gene function. Two of the 13 genes (Gria1 and Htr3a) have been previously reported with nociception-related phenotypes in genetically engineered mouse strains and represent useful benchmarking standards. One of the 13 genes (Cnrip1) is known from human studies to play a role in pain modulation and the knockout mouse reported herein can be used to explore this function further. The remaining 10 genes (Abhd13, Alg6, BC048562, Cgnl1, Cp, Mmp16, Oxa1l, Tecpr2, Trim14, and Trim2) reveal novel pathways involved in nociception and may provide new knowledge to better understand genetic mechanisms of inflammatory pain and to serve as models for therapeutic target validation and drug development.