CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026
The ENKRVM →SRD Projection Constitutes a Functionally Specific Circuit for Bidirectional Pain Modulation.
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Wan Kexing, Huang Jiajia, Xu Qian, Cui Chi, Shi Yulong, Lei Jie, Fang Zaiyan, Xu Tianyi, Zheng Yufei, Wu Jiaao, Zhu Zhengle, Zhang Zhiqiang, Liang Yujie, Zhang Yichi, Pan Hui-Lin, Peng Ping, Jing Xianghong, Li Man
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AIMS: Chronic pain management remains a major clinical challenge due to the limited availability of effective therapies that avoid severe side effects. The rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM) is a critical brainstem center for pain modulation; however, the neurochemical identity and functional roles of its neuronal subpopulations remain incompletely understood.
METHODS: We performed a series of tests by constructing a complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA)-induced inflammatory nociceptive model and a chronic constrictive injury (CCI) neuropathic pain model combined with behavioral experiments, in situ hybridization, chemogenetics, optogenetics, and in vivo electrophysiological techniques.
RESULTS: This study identifies enkephalinergic neurons in the RVM and their projections to the subnucleus reticularis dorsalis (SRD) as a distinct descending pain-inhibitory circuit. RNAscope shows elevated ENKRVM neuron activity in mouse models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Bidirectional chemogenetic and optogenetic manipulations demonstrate that inhibiting ENKRVM neurons or their SRD projections induces hyperalgesia, while activation elevates baseline pain thresholds and reverses hyperalgesia in CFA and CCI models. This pathway modulates nociception selectively without affecting anxiety or motor function.
CONCLUSION: These findings identify the ENKRVM→SRD pathway as a bidirectional descending circuit for pain inhibition, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic target for analgesic intervention.
METHODS: We performed a series of tests by constructing a complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA)-induced inflammatory nociceptive model and a chronic constrictive injury (CCI) neuropathic pain model combined with behavioral experiments, in situ hybridization, chemogenetics, optogenetics, and in vivo electrophysiological techniques.
RESULTS: This study identifies enkephalinergic neurons in the RVM and their projections to the subnucleus reticularis dorsalis (SRD) as a distinct descending pain-inhibitory circuit. RNAscope shows elevated ENKRVM neuron activity in mouse models of inflammatory and neuropathic pain. Bidirectional chemogenetic and optogenetic manipulations demonstrate that inhibiting ENKRVM neurons or their SRD projections induces hyperalgesia, while activation elevates baseline pain thresholds and reverses hyperalgesia in CFA and CCI models. This pathway modulates nociception selectively without affecting anxiety or motor function.
CONCLUSION: These findings identify the ENKRVM→SRD pathway as a bidirectional descending circuit for pain inhibition, highlighting its potential as a therapeutic target for analgesic intervention.