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1 Physiological Society Symposium Nociceptors as Homeostatic Afferents: Central Processing Anatomy of primary afferents and projection neurones in the rat spinal dorsal horn with particular emphasis on substance P and the neurokinin 1 receptor A. J. Todd Spinal Cord Group, Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK The dorsal horn of the spinal cord plays an important role in transmitting information from nociceptive primary afferent neurones to the brain; however, our knowledge of its neuronal and synaptic organisation is still limited. Nociceptive afferents terminate mainly in laminae I and II and some of these contain substance P. Many projection neurones are located in lamina I and these send axons to various parts of the brain, including the caudal ventrolateral medulla (CVLM), parabrachial area, periaqueductal grey matter and thalamus. The neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptor on which substance P acts is expressed by certain neurones in the dorsal horn, including approximately 80 % of lamina I projection neurones. There is also a population of large NK1 receptor-immunoreactive neurones with cell bodies in laminae III and IV which project to the CVLM and parabrachial area. It has been shown that the lamina III/IV NK1 receptor-immunoreactive projection neurones are densely and selectively innervated by substance P-containing primary afferent neurones, and there is evidence that these afferents also target lamina I projection neurones with the receptor. Both types of neurone are innervated by descending serotoninergic axons from the medullary raphe nuclei. The lamina III/IV neurones also receive numerous synapses from axons of local inhibitory interneurones which contain GABA and neuropeptide Y, and again this input shows some specificity since post-synaptic dorsal column neurones which also have cell bodies in laminae III and IV receive few contacts from neuropeptide Y- containing axons. These observations indicate that there are specific patterns of synaptic connectivity within the spinal dorsal horn. Experimental Physiology (2002) 87.2, Rexed (1952) divided the grey matter of the cat spinal cord into a series of parallel laminae and this scheme which has been extended to other species is now widely used for descriptive purposes. Lamina I corresponds to the marginal layer and lamina II to the substantia gelatinosa, while the remainder of the dorsal horn consists of 4 further laminae (III VI). Despite the obvious importance of the dorsal horn in somatosensory processing, and in particular in pain mechanisms, the complex neuronal and synaptic organisation of the region is still poorly understood. Recent anatomical studies have begun to shed light on the circuitry in laminae I III, and in particular on pathways involving the tachykinin peptide substance P and the neurokinin 1 receptor on which it acts. This review briefly describes the earlier literature concerning primary afferent input to and projections from the dorsal horn, and then summarises recent findings on the expression of NK1 receptors by projection neurones and synaptic inputs to these cells. Primary afferents The dorsal horn is the major site of termination for primary afferent axons. These are distributed in an orderly way based on fibre size and sensory modality. Most small afferents with either fine myelinated (Ad) or unmyelinated (C) axons are nociceptors, and these end predominantly in laminae I and II, although a few reach deeper laminae (Light & Perl, 1979; Sugiura et al. 1987). Some Ad afferents innervate down-hairs and these arborise on either side of the lamina II III border (Light & Perl, 1979). Most large (Ab) cutaneous afferents function as low-threshold mechanoreceptors (but see symposium paper by Lawson in this issue), and each type has a characteristic pattern of Presented at a scientific meeting of the Physiological Society at the University of Bristol in September Publication of The Physiological Society a.todd@bio.gla.ac.uk 2351

2 246 A. J. Todd Exp. Physiol arborisation in the deeper laminae (III VI) of the dorsal horn (Brown, 1981). There are several neurochemical markers that can be used to define populations of fine primary afferents, for example many synthesise one or more neuropeptides (Hunt et al. 1992; Lawson, 1992). In the rat it appears that most, if not all, peptidergic afferents contain calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and since this is restricted to primary afferents in the dorsal horn, antibodies against CGRP can be used to identify these afferents. Many peptidergic somatic afferents contain substance P and physiological studies have suggested that these are all nociceptors (Lawson et al. 1997). Substance P-containing afferents (which include both A and C fibres) end mainly in lamina I and the outer part of lamina II, although some penetrate deeper into the dorsal horn. Some C fibres contain somatostatin and these terminate in the outer part of lamina II (Alvarez & Priestley, 1990; Sakamoto et al. 1999). Approximately half of the C fibres in a somatic nerve do not contain peptides, but most of these can be revealed by their ability to bind the lectin Bandeiraea simplicifolia isolectin B4 (Silverman & Kruger, 1990). Functions of non-peptidergic C fibres are poorly understood; however, it is believed that this population also includes many nociceptors (Guo et al. 1999; Gerke & Plenderleith, 2001). Although there are no intrinsic neurochemical markers which will specifically label myelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptors, these can be identified by transganglionic transport of cholera toxin B subunit (CTb) (Robertson & Grant, 1985). If CTb is injected into a peripheral somatic nerve, it is normally transported only by afferents with myelinated axons and this results in labelling of terminals in lamina I (Ad nociceptors) and in laminae III VI (Ad down-hair afferents and Ab afferents). Projection neurones in the superficial dorsal horn Neurons that project to the brain are most densely packed in lamina I and are also found in the deeper laminae of the dorsal horn (III VI). Cell bodies of spinal projection neurones can be revealed by injecting retrograde tracers into the target nuclei, and this approach was first used by Trevino & Carstens (1975) to reveal spinothalamic tract neurones in cat and monkey. Lamina I neurones have since been shown to project to several sites in the brain including the thalamus, periaqueductal grey matter (PAG), lateral parabrachial area, nucleus of the solitary tract and medullary reticular formation (e.g. Giesler et al. 1979; Menétrey et al. 1982; Cechetto et al. 1985; Menétrey & Basbaum, 1987; Lima & Coimbra, 1988; Burstein et al. 1990; Lima et al. 1991; Todd et al. 2000). These projections are predominantly contralateral. We have estimated the numbers of retrogradely labelled lamina I neurones on the contralateral side of the 3rd lumbar (L3) segment following injection of CTb into various brain sites in the rat (Todd et al. 2000). The largest numbers of labelled cells were seen after injections into the region between the lateral reticular nucleus and the spinal trigeminal nucleus in the caudal ventrolateral medulla Figure 1 Synaptic input from substance P-containing axons to a NK1 receptor-immunoreactive lamina III neurone. a, a confocal image showing a single optical section through part of a dorsal dendrite belonging to a lamina III cell. The section has been reacted with antibodies against NK1 receptor (green), substance P (blue) and CGRP (red). Axons that contain both peptides appear purple. The dendrite (D) receives contacts from several immunostained axons, four of which are marked with numbered arrows. Three of these (1, 3 and 4) contain both peptides and are therefore derived from substance P-containing primary afferents, while the other one (2) contains only substance P. b, the same field after the section was processed to reveal the three primary antibodies with a peroxidase diaminobenzidine technique. c, a low magnification electron micrograph through the same section at a depth approximately corresponding to the confocal image in a. Scale bar, 10 mm. Adapted from Naim et al. (1997).

3 Exp. Physiol Spinal projection neurones 247 (CVLM) ( cells per 70 mm transverse section) and the lateral parabrachial area ( per section). Since the L3 segment is approximately 2.5 mm long, this equates to between 280 and 390 contralateral lamina I neurones labelled from CVLM and between 300 and 350 from the parabrachial area in this segment. More recently, we have injected different tracers into these two regions and found that most retrogradely labelled neurones contained both tracers (A. J. Todd, Z. Puskár & R. C. Spike, unpublished observations). Injections into the PAG resulted in cells per 70 mm section (equivalent to cells in the L3 segment) (Todd et al. 2000). In a previous study we had obtained an estimate of 0.3 lamina I neurones per 70 mm section in the lumbar enlargement after injection of CTb into the thalamus, which corresponds to approximately 12 contralateral spinothalamic lamina I neurones per segment (Marshall et al. 1996). There have been two other quantitative studies of the spinothalamic tract in the rat: Lima & Coimbra (1988) obtained a value of 37.5 labelled lamina I neurones on the contralateral side in the combined L3 and L4 segments, while Burstein et al. (1990) found 22 retrogradely labelled lamina I neurones in segments L1, L2 and L3 and 19 such cells in segments L4 and L5. Although there is some variation between these estimates, it is clear that in the rat spinothalamic neurones are greatly outnumbered by those that project to the parabrachial area and CVLM. Substance P acts on the neurokinin 1 (NK1) receptor, and this is present on a restricted population of dorsal horn neurones (Bleazard et al. 1994; Vigna et al. 1994; Brown et al. 1995; Littlewood et al. 1995; Todd et al. 1998). By combining retrograde tracing with immunocytochemistry, we have shown that the NK1 receptor is expressed by approximately 80 % of lamina I neurones that project to the thalamus, periaqueductal grey matter, parabrachial area, or CVLM (Marshall et al. 1996; Todd et al. 2000). Several lines of evidence suggest that neurones with the NK1 receptor respond to noxious stimuli. Henry (1976) found that all dorsal horn neurones in cat spinal cord which were activated by substance P were excited by noxious stimulation, while in the rat it has been shown that most NK1 receptor-immunoreactive neurones in lamina I show internalisation of the receptor (Mantyh et al. 1995) or c-fos expression (Doyle & Hunt, 1999) following acute noxious stimuli. Mantyh et al. (1997) have provided evidence that neurones in the superficial dorsal horn with the NK1 receptor play a critical role in the development of hyperalgesia, since this was dramatically reduced in rats following intrathecal administration of substance P conjugated to the cytotoxin saporin, which selectively destroyed most NK1 receptor-immunoreactive neurones in this region. Less is known about lamina I projection neurones that lack the NK1 receptor; however, within this group we have identified a population of giant cells characterised by the high density of punctate staining with antibody against the glycine receptor-associated protein gephyrin, which outlines their cell bodies and proximal dendrites (Puskár et al. 2001). These cells project to the parabrachial area and most expressed c-fos following intradermal injection of formalin into the ipsilateral hindpaw, which indicates that they respond to acute noxious stimuli. The gephyrin-rich cells are very infrequent; since we found between 5 and 7 per side in each midlumbar segment, they probably make up around 2 % of spinoparabrachial lamina I neurones. Laminae III and IV contain scattered large neurones which are NK1 receptor-immunoreactive and have prominent Figure 2 High magnification electron micrographs of contacts formed by the boutons identified in Fig. 1 and the dendrite which belongs to a lamina III NK1 receptor-immunoreactive neurone. In each case the bouton (numbered as in Fig. 1) is presynaptic to the dendrite (D) at an asymmetrical synapse (between arrows). Scale bar, 0.5 mm. Adapted from Naim et al. (1997).

4 248 A. J. Todd Exp. Physiol dorsally directed dendrites that arborise within the superficial laminae (Bleazard et al. 1994; Brown et al. 1995; Littlewood et al. 1995). We found that there are approximately 20 of these cells on each side of the spinal cord in the L4 segment, and that they are projection neurones, since virtually all could be retrogradely labelled from the CVLM (Todd et al. 2000). In addition, at least two-thirds of these cells project to the parabrachial area and some to the PAG or thalamus (Marshall et al. 1996; Todd et al. 2000). Inputs to projection neurones We have shown that the NK1 receptor-immunoreactive neurones in laminae III and IV receive numerous synaptic contacts from substance P-containing primary afferents both on their distal dendrites in laminae I II and also in deeper laminae (Naim et al. 1997) (Figs 1 and 2). Since substance P is likely to act on the NK1 receptor through volume transmission (Zoli & Agnati, 1996), we suggested that the presence of synapses is probably more important for mediating the effects of glutamate, which will also be released from these afferents (DeBiasi & Rustioni, 1988). Because the dendrites of these cells branch extensively throughout the dorsal horn they would be in a position to receive synaptic input from various types of afferent. However, we found that they had relatively few synapses from myelinated afferents in laminae III IV (Naim et al. 1998), and very few contacts from either somatostatincontaining or non-peptidergic C fibres in lamina II (Sakamoto et al. 1999). These results indicate that there is a powerful, selective monosynaptic innervation of projection neurones in laminae III and IV which express the NK1 receptor by substance P-containing primary afferents. Less is known about the primary afferent input to lamina I neurones; however, McLeod et al. (1998) reported that many NK1 receptor-immunoreactive dendrites in this lamina received synapses from substance P-immunoreactive axons, and concluded that substance P-containing afferents provided significant input to lamina I projection neurones with the receptor. In agreement with this, we have observed that lamina I projection neurones with the NK1 receptor receive many contacts from axons that contain substance P and CGRP (A. J. Todd, Z. Puskár & R. C. Spike, unpublished observations). Serotoninergic axons from the medulla are thought to contribute to both stimulation-produced and opiate analgesia. Stewart & Maxwell (2000) showed that serotoninimmunoreactive axons form numerous contacts on lamina III/IV neurones with the NK1 receptor, and we have recently found that they also selectively target many lamina I projection neurones with the receptor (Polgár et al. 2002). 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