Acyloxyacyl hydrolase modulates pelvic pain severity.

Acyloxyacyl hydrolase modulates pelvic pain severity. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2017 Nov 08;:ajpregu.00239.2017 Authors: Yang W, Yaggie RE, Jiang MC, Rudick CN, Done JD, Heckman CJ, Rosen JM, Schaeffer AJ, Klumpp DJ Abstract Chronic pelvic pain causes significant patient morbidity and is a bane to clinicians. Using a murine neurogenic cystitis model that recapitulates key aspects of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC), we recently showed that pseudorabies virus (PRV) induces severe pelvic allodynia in BALB/c mice, relative to C57BL/6 mice. Here, we report that a quantitative trait locus (QTL) analysis of PRV-induced allodynia in F2CxB progeny identified a polymorphism on chromosome 13, rs6314295, significantly associated with allodynia (LOD=3.11). The nearby gene encoding acyloxyacyl hydrolase, (Aoah), was induced in the sacral spinal cord of PRV-infected mice. AOAH-deficient mice exhibited increased vesicomotor reflex in response to bladder distension, consistent with spontaneous bladder hypersensitivity, and increased pelvic allodynia in neurogenic cystitis and post-bacterial chronic pain models. AOAH deficiency resulted in greater bladder pathology and TNF production in PRV neurogenic cystitis, markers of increased bladder mast cell activation. AOAH immunoreactivity was detectable along the bladder-brain axis, including in brain sites previously correlated with human chronic pelvic pain. Finally, AOAH-de...
Source: American Journal of Physiology. Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology - Category: Physiology Authors: Tags: Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol Source Type: research