Author:
Lee Kwan Yeop,Lee Dongchul,Kagan Zachary B.,Wang Dong,Bradley Kerry
Abstract
New strategies for spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain have emerged in recent years, which may work better via different analgesic mechanisms than traditional low-frequency (e.g., 50 Hz) paresthesia-based SCS. To determine if 10 kHz and burst SCS waveforms might have a similar mechanistic basis, we examined whether these SCS strategies at intensities ostensibly below sensory thresholds would modulate spinal dorsal horn (DH) neuronal function in a neuron type-dependent manner. By using an in vivo electrophysiological approach in rodents, we found that low-intensity 10 kHz SCS, but not burst SCS, selectively activates inhibitory interneurons in the spinal DH. This study suggests that low-intensity 10 kHz SCS may inhibit pain-sensory processing in the spinal DH by activating inhibitory interneurons without activating DC fibers, resulting in paresthesia-free pain relief, whereas burst SCS likely operates via other mechanisms.
Subject
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,Medicine (miscellaneous)
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