Hyperexcitability of muscle spindle afferents in jaw‐closing muscles in experimental myalgia: Evidence for large primary afferents involvement in chronic pain

Author:

Sas Dar'ya12,Gaudel Fanny12,Verdier Dorly12,Kolta Arlette123ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Département de Neurosciences Université de Montréal Montréal Québec Canada

2. Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur le Cerveau et l'Apprentissage (CIRCA) Montréal Québec Canada

3. Faculté de Médecine Dentaire Université de Montréal Montréal Québec Canada

Abstract

AbstractThe goals of this review are to improve understanding of the aetiology of chronic muscle pain and identify new targets for treatments. Muscle pain is usually associated with trigger points in syndromes such as fibromyalgia and myofascial syndrome, and with small spots associated with spontaneous electrical activity that seems to emanate from fibers inside muscle spindles in EMG studies. These observations, added to the reports that large‐diameter primary afferents, such as those innervating muscle spindles, become hyperexcitable and develop spontaneous ectopic firing in conditions leading to neuropathic pain, suggest that changes in excitability of these afferents might make an important contribution to the development of pathological pain. Here, we review evidence that the muscle spindle afferents (MSAs) of the jaw‐closing muscles become hyperexcitable in a model of chronic orofacial myalgia. In these afferents, as in other large‐diameter primary afferents in dorsal root ganglia, firing emerges from fast membrane potential oscillations that are supported by a persistent sodium current (INaP) mediated by Na+ channels containing the α‐subunit NaV1.6. The current flowing through NaV1.6 channels increases when the extracellular Ca2+ concentration decreases, and studies have shown that INaP‐driven firing is increased by S100β, an astrocytic protein that chelates Ca2+ when released in the extracellular space. We review evidence of how astrocytes, which are known to be activated in pain conditions, might, through their regulation of extracellular Ca2+, contribute to the generation of ectopic firing in MSAs. To explain how ectopic firing in MSAs might cause pain, we review evidence supporting the hypothesis that cross‐talk between proprioceptive and nociceptive pathways might occur in the periphery, within the spindle capsule.

Funder

Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Physiology,Physiology (medical),Nutrition and Dietetics,Physiology,Physiology (medical),Nutrition and Dietetics

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