Changes in Nociceptive Thresholds and Adenylyl Cyclase System Activity in Skeletal Muscles in Rats with Acute and Mild Type 1 Diabetes

• Published in: Neuroscience and behavioral physiology Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 517 - 523
• Main Authors: Shipilov, V. N., Trost, A. M., Chistyakova, O. V., Derkach, K. V., Shpakov, A. O.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01-06-2017; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adenylate cyclase; Animals; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Complications; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Guanine; Insulin; Intranasal administration; Isoproterenol; Muscles; Musculoskeletal system; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Nucleotides; Pain perception; Peripheral neuropathy; Rats; Relaxin; Rodents; Skeletal muscle; Sympathomimetics; adenylyl cyclase; diabetic peripheral neuropathy; mechanical nociceptive threshold; diabetes mellitus; insulin; intranasal administration
• ISSN: 0097-0549; 1573-899X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11055-017-0428-9

Diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) is one of the commonest complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1). The aims of the present work were to study the dynamics of the development of pain-type DPN and the functional status of the hormone-sensitive adenylyl cyclase signal system (ACSS) in the skeletal muscle of rats with models of acute and mild DM1 and to investigate the influences on these of insulin therapy using different routes of hormone administration – intranasal and peripheral. The nociceptive threshold in rats decreased in both models of DM1; the stimulatory effects of guanine nucleotides (GIDP) and adrenergic agonists (isoproterenol, BRL-37344) on adenylyl cyclase (AC) also decreased. The AC-stimulating effect of relaxin decreased in animals with acute DM1, while the change in mild DM1 was minor. Peripheral administration of insulin to rats with acute DM1 increased the nociceptive threshold and partially restored the AC effect of the β3 agonist BRL-37344. Intranasal administration of insulin to rats with mild DM1 also led to an increase in the nociceptive threshold and partially restored basal and BRL-37344-stimulated AC activity in the skeletal muscle of diabetic animals. Thus, skeletal muscle in rats with acute and mild DM1 showed impaired nociceptive sensitivity and ACSS function, which was partially restored by treatment of animals with insulin given peripherally (acute DM1) or intranasally (mild DM1).