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The opioid/nociceptin receptors are involved in many neurological disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. Kainic acid (KA) is an analog of the excitatory amino acid transmitter glutamate and the systemic administration of KA induces status epilepticus (SE) in rodents. In this study, we examined the alterations in the G-protein activity and the gene expression levels of mu, kappa, delta opioid and nociceptin receptors (MOPr, KOPr, DOPr and NOPr) as well as PNOC, the precursor polypeptide of nociceptin-OFQ (N/OFQ) in KA-induced seizures in the rat brain cortex. KA was used to create seizures with the dose of 10 mg/kg body weight i.p. Following the KA administration, the rats were observed for 3 h to assess seizure activity. Seizures occurred approximately 45 min after the KA injection. Only rats exhibiting full limbic seizures, forelimb clonus with rearing, were used in this study. All animals were decapitated 4 h after the administration of KA. Our [S-35]GTP gamma S binding results showed that there was a significant difference in both the affinity and efficacy particularly one of NOPr stimulation following KA treatment. Slight, but significant increase was observed for MOPr. Moreover PNOC, NOPr and MOPr mRNA levels were increased by KA treatment but there were no significant changes in the levels of DOPr and KOPr mRNAs. These results show that the activities of opioid/nociceptin receptors can be modified by KA-treatment, and MOPr, PNOC and NOPr are the most responsive to KA-induced seizures in the rat brain cortex. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to predict key genes and their relationships for anxiety and nociceptive sensitivity related to Comt1 genetype. Methods: The raw data of E-GEOD-20160 related anxiety and nociceptive sensitivity were obtained. Pearson correlation coefficient of interaction in PPI was calculated. Topological analysis was processed for PPI network, and genes in this network were ranked based on their degrees. Ego genes were identified and models were searching and refined. Total 1000 randomized test were processed for ego networks. The classification accuracy of each ego network was obtained in this process. Results: The interactions with genes in gene expression profiles were extracted and PPI was constructed. The PPI included 4639 genes and 43837 relationships. Differential co-expression network was constructed and 74 ego genes were obtained. Thereinto, top 5 ego genes were ADCY2, GRM8, S1PR3, ADCY6 and ANXA1. After module searching and refinement, total o 11 candidate modules were obtained, including module 14, module 51 and module 9. In addition, these 11 modules were confirmed to be with significance. Module 14 contained 10 genes, such as HRH3, DRD2 and CXCR3. Similarly, module 51 included 6 genes, such as HELZ2, NCOA3 and MED30. Conclusions: Ego-network analysis was a useful and comprehensive method for biomarkers screening. Several modules such as module 3 and module 36 were important sub-network. Potential genes in these modules including ADCYs, GNAI1, DRD2, PNOC, CCR2, DRD2, and LPAR1 might be important genes for anxiety and nociceptive sensitivity researching.