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To: John Dwyer who wrote (221)	1/19/1998 10:57:00 PM
From: Dr. John M. de Castro	Read Replies (2) of 1494

Memantine has potent pain relieving effects in animal models of neuropathic pain (NP). I've attached an abstract demonstrating that memantine is a potent analgesic in NP models. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 1997 Feb;280(2):829-838 Efficacy of spinal NMDA receptor antagonism in formalin hyperalgesia and nerve injury evoked allodynia in the rat. Chaplan SR, Malmberg AB, Yaksh TL Neuropathic pain remains a significant clinical problem. Current understanding implicates the spinal cord dorsal horn N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor apparatus in its pathogenesis. Previous reports have described NMDA antagonist reduction of nerve injury-induced thermal hyperalgesia and formalin injection-related electrical activity. We examined a panel of spinally administered NMDA antagonists in two models: allodynia evoked by tight ligation of the fifth and sixth lumbar spinal nerves (a model of chronic nerve injury pain), and the formalin paw test (a model wherein pretreatment with drug may preempt the development of a pain state). A wide range of efficacies was observed. In the nerve injury model, order of efficacy (expressed as percent of maximum possible effect +/- S.E.), at the maximum dose not yielding motor impairment, was memantine (96 +/- 5%) = AP5 (91 +/- 7%) > dextrorphan (64 +/- 11%) = dextromethorphan (65 +/- 22%) > MK801 (34 +/- 8%) > ketamine (18 +/- 6%). For the formalin test, the order of efficacy was AP5 (86 +/- 9%) > memantine (74 +/- 5%) > or = MK801 (67 +/- 16%) > dextrorphan (47 +/- 16%) > dextromethorphan (31 +/- 12%) > ketamine (17 +/- 15%). In the nerve injury model, no supraspinal action was seen after intracerebroventricular injections of dextromethorphan and ketamine. NMDA antagonists by the spinal route appear to be useful therapeutic agents for chemically induced facilitated pain as well as nerve injury induced tactile allodynia. It is not known what accounts for the wide range of efficacies.

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