Sodium channel Nav1.7 immunoreactivity in painful human dental pulp and burning mouth syndrome

Beneng, Kiran, Renton, Tara, Yilmaz, Zehra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1967-5270, Yiangou, Yiangos and Anand, Praveen 2010. Sodium channel Nav1.7 immunoreactivity in painful human dental pulp and burning mouth syndrome. BMC Neuroscience 11 (1) , p. 71. 10.1186/1471-2202-11-71

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Background Voltage gated sodium channels Nav1.7 are involved in nociceptor nerve action potentials and are known to affect pain sensitivity in clinical genetic disorders. Aims and Objectives To study Nav1.7 levels in dental pulpitis pain, an inflammatory condition, and burning mouth syndrome (BMS), considered a neuropathic orofacial pain disorder. Methods Two groups of patients were recruited for this study. One group consisted of patients with dental pulpitis pain (n = 5) and controls (n = 12), and the other patients with BMS (n = 7) and controls (n = 10). BMS patients were diagnosed according to the International Association for the Study of Pain criteria; a pain history was collected, including the visual analogue scale (VAS). Immunohistochemistry with visual intensity and computer image analysis were used to evaluate levels of Nav1.7 in dental pulp tissue samples from the dental pulpitis group, and tongue biopsies from the BMS group. Results There was a significantly increased visual intensity score for Nav1.7 in nerve fibres in the painful dental pulp specimens, compared to controls. Image analysis showed a trend for an increase of the Nav1.7 immunoreactive % area in the painful pulp group, but this was not statistically significant. When expressed as a ratio of the neurofilament % area, there was a strong trend for an increase of Nav1.7 in the painful pulp group. Nav1.7 immunoreactive fibres were seen in abundance in the sub-mucosal layer of tongue biopsies, with no significant difference between BMS and controls. Conclusion Nav1.7 sodium channel may play a significant role in inflammatory dental pain. Clinical trials with selective Nav1.7 channel blockers should prioritise dental pulp pain rather than BMS.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	BioMed Central
ISSN:	1471-2202
Date of Acceptance:	8 June 2010
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 07:38
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/115485

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