کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
7270630 1473239 2009 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Absence of pain with hyperhidrosis: A new syndrome where vascular afferents may mediate cutaneous sensation
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب سلولی و مولکولی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Absence of pain with hyperhidrosis: A new syndrome where vascular afferents may mediate cutaneous sensation
چکیده انگلیسی
Congenital absence of pain perception is a rare phenotype. Here we report two unrelated adult individuals who have a previously unreported neuropathy consisting of congenital absence of pain with hyperhidrosis (CAPH). Both subjects had normal intelligence and productive lives despite failure to experience pain due to broken bones, severe cold or burns. Functional assessments revealed that both are generally hypesthetic with thresholds greater than two standard deviations above normal for a several of modalities in addition to noxious stimuli. Sweating was 3 to 8-fold greater than normal. Sural nerve biopsy showed that all types of myelinated and unmyelinated fibers were severely reduced. Extensive multi-antibody immunofluorescence analyses were conducted on several skin biopsies from the hands and back of one CAPH subject and two normal subjects. The CAPH subject had all normal types of immunochemically and morphologically distinct sensory and autonomic innervation to the vasculature and sweat glands, including a previously unknown cholinergic arterial innervation. Virtually all other types of normal cutaneous C, Aδ and Aβ-fiber endings were absent. This subject had no mutations in the genes SCN9A, SCN10A, SCN11A, NGFB, TRKA, NRTN and GFRA2. Our findings suggest three hypotheses: (1) that development or maintenance of sensory innervation to cutaneous vasculature and sweat glands may be under separate genetic control from that of all other cutaneous sensory innervation, (2) the latter innervation is preferentially vulnerable to some environmental factor, and (3) vascular and sweat gland afferents may contribute to conscious cutaneous perception.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: PAIN® - Volume 147, Issues 1–3, 15 December 2009, Pages 287-298
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