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June 14, 2013 IMMPACT - XVI meeting Washington, DC. Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM) Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Controls (DNIC) for Phase 2 and 3 Trials. Simon Haroutiunian B.Sc.Pharm , M.Sc (Clinical Pharmacy), PhD Danish Pain Research Center Aarhus University Hospital - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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June 14, 2013IMMPACT-XVI meeting
Washington, DC
Simon HaroutiunianB.Sc.Pharm, M.Sc (Clinical Pharmacy), PhD
Danish Pain Research CenterAarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark
Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM)Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Controls (DNIC)
for Phase 2 and 3 Trials
Introduction• Descending pain modulation• CPM/DNIC testing paradigm and terminology
What does CPM/DNIC measure?
CPM/DNIC testing approaches
CPM/DNIC and chronic pain
CPM/DNIC and response to pharmacotherapy
Discussion: Key methodological issues for inlcuding CPM testing in trials
OUTLINE
Descending Pain ModulationINTRODUCTION
Pavlov IP. “Conditioned Reflexes” 1927
Electric shocks, burns and cuts in dogs, followed consistently by presentation of food resulted eventually in dogs responding to these stimuli as signals of food, failing to show “even the tiniest” signs of pain.
Melzack and Wall, Science 1965
Either “the dogs were out to fool Pavlov and refused to reveal they were feeling pain…” or “intense noxious stimulation can be prevented from producing pain…”
INTRODUCTIONDescending Pain Modulation
Sustained paw pinch
Tail Stroking the receptive field
Recording from lumbar convergent (Lamina V, WDR) neurons in anesthetized rats
No DNIC effect was observed when recording from non convergent (noxious only, non-noxious and proprioceptive) neurons in the dorsal horn
Le Bars et al, Pain 1979
Clinical DNIC/HNCSINTRODUCTION
No effect of ischemic pain on tactile sensitivity in contralateral arm
Le Bars 1979
Conditioning
Test
Electrical stimulation of the sural nerve
Allodynic area
Contralateral area
BrushingCold pressor test
/tourniquet on normal upper limb
Bouhassira et al, Brain 2003
INTRODUCTIONClinical DNIC/HNCS
INTRODUCTION
Ossipov et al, Journal of Clinical Investigation 2010
Descending Pain Modulation
Dogrul et al, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2012
Millan MJ. Progress in Neurobiology 2002
CPM/DNIC Testing ParadigmINTRODUCTION
The activity of pain-signaling neurons in the spinal dorsal horn (and in trigeminal nuclei) is attenuated in response to noxious stimuli applied to a remote area of the body
DNIC/CPM/HNCS testing: psychophysical measure to characterize a person’s capability to modulate pain (effect of endogenous analgesia)
TERMINOLOGY
DNIC / HNCS → Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM)
Conditioning Stimulus: to induce the change in pain perceptionTest Stimulus: the painful stimulus upon which the conditioning effect is tested CPM: The phenomenon through which the conditioning affects the test
Michaux et al, Eur J Pain 2010
• Counterirritation vs. Conditioning• Separating HNCS from DNIC, as these are “overlapping but not homogenous”• Using ”perceptual DNIC-analogous effects” instead of CPM
Rt Rt
Lt
CPM = ∆ NPS
Test-stimulus baseline Test-stimulus conditioned
Conditioning stimulus
NP
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Courtesy: David Yarnitsky
CPM TEST PARADIGM
Using CPM testing for patient phenotypingOBJECTIVE
1. What are we REALLY measuring?
Identifying a neurotransmitter-specific malfunction in a descending pathway? Combined output of all descending control mechanisms? Capability of “placebo response”?
2. What factors affect DNIC/CPM?
Age/Gender/Genetics Psychological variables Painful conditions (and their duration) Pharmacological and other treatments
CPM PROTOCOLS
Conditioning stimulus Hot water bath immersion Cold water bath immersion Tourniquet: ischemia
Test stimulus Fixed stimulus
Contact heat: Fixed intensity of stimulus (e.g. Pain-60)Electrical stimulationMechanical stimulation
Threshold measurementThermal or mechanical
Examples
Most common conditioning, UE
Spatial summation procedure (cold conditioning)
12°C water bath
Julien et al, Pain 2005
Spatial summation (cold conditioning)
CONDITIONING vs. TEST STIMULI
Pud et al, Pain 2009
Variability in protocols
Yarnitsky el al, Pain 2008 Nahman-Averbuch et al, J Pain Sympt Manage 2011
Yarnitsky et al, Pain 2012
DNIC>0: efficient pain modulation
CPM<0: efficient pain modulation
Test stimulus application: Dominant / Right / Dominant arm
Conditioning: Hot bath 46.5°CTest stimulus: Heat Pain-60
CONDITIONING vs. TEST STIMULI
CPM<0: efficient pain modulation
Variability in protocols
FACTORS AFFECTING CPM
Variables that may affect the extent of the CPM response: Gender Age Testing site Surface area Duration Intensity of conditioning and test stimuli Parallel vs. sequential stimulation ISI Genetic variability
FACTORS AFFECTING CPM
The relationship between conditioning stimulus intensity vs. CPM response magnitude is unclear Positive correlation: Le Bars 1995; Villanueva and Le Bars 1995; Fujii 2006No correlation: Pud 2005; Baad-Hansen 2005
Does conditioning stimulus need to be painful to induce endogenous analgesia?Yes: Le Bars 2002No: Lautenbacher and Rollman 1997, Lautenbacher et al. 2002
Pain intensity of conditioning stimuli: 12°C VAS 20-2546.5°C VAS 40-50
Granot et al, Pain 2008
FACTORS AFFECTING CPMIs CPM merely attributable to distraction?
Two stimuli, whether innocuous or noxious, produce joint effects, which are greater than either presented alone but the combined perceptual effect is far from additive.“…Distraction had a very small effect, suggesting that the “pain inhibits pain” phenomenon attributable to DNIC is not due to attentional processes”.
CPM & CHRONIC PAIN
Temporomandibular disordersMaixner et al, Pain 1995King et al, Pain 2009
Fibromyalgia Julien et al, Pain 2005Kosek and Hansson, Pain 1997
OsteoarthritisArendt-Nielsen et al, Pain 2010Kosek etal, Pain 2000
Tension type headache and migrainePielsticker et al, Pain 2005Sandrini et al, Cephalgia 2006
Irritable Bowel SyndromeWilder-Smith et al, Gut 2004Piché et al, Pain 2010
Lewis et al, J Pain 2012
ConditioningCold (n=17)Limb ischemia (n=8)Heat (n=4)Capsaicin (n=1)
TestMechanical pressure (n=15)Electrical stimulus (n=9)Thermal stimulus (n=8)
CPM& CHRONIC PAIN
De Felice et al, Pain 2011 Yarnitsky et al, Pain 2008
Can CPM protect us against chronic pain?
CPM & PHARMACOTHERAPY RESPONSE
Yarnitsky et al, Pain 2012
Duloxetine for DPN
CPM & PLACEBO RESPONSE
Eippert et al, Neuron 2009
Brain and brainstem structures essential for DNIC (e.g. ACC, Thalamus, PAG, RVM) play a key role in placebo analgesia
Nir et al, Pain 2012
TREATMENT EFFECT on CPM
Bouwense et al, PLoS One 2012
Pregabalin treatment has only moderate effect on CPM
Niesters et al, Pain 2011
IV Ketamine treatment reduces DNIC towards more pronounced pain facilitation following noxious thermal stimulation in healthy volunteers
The effect of Duloxetine on CPM different in patients with efficient vs. inefficient CPMYarnitsky et al, Pain 2012
PHARMACOTHERAPY RESPONSE PREDICTORSMay other biomarkers/predictors actually measure CPM response?
P=0.07 P<0.05 P<0.01
PHARMACOTHERAPY RESPONSE PREDICTORSMay other biomarkers/predictors actually measure CPM response?
50 100 150 200 250 300 3500
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R² = 0.295282076192487
Healthy, dorsal foot
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R² = 0.269764959901536
PNI, contralateral foot blocked
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R² = 0.0430865915050787
PNI, contralateral dorsal foot
Unilateral PNI in foot.Baseline topical capsaicin testing (10% cream for 30 min) (pain, flare response by laser Doppler)US-guided peripheral nerve block with 2% Lidocaine (innervation of painful area)Topical capsaicin testing on C/L foot 90 min after block (with complete pain relief)
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Individual capsaicin-induced pain scores, uncorrected for flare response
NR
S 0-
100
Baseline (ongoing pain)
With nerve block
Flare response 248.7 232.2
Pain 24.2 38.3
PHARMACOTHERAPY RESPONSE PREDICTORSMay other biomarkers/predictors actually measure CPM response?
DISCUSSION
Is CPM mechanism-specific, or may be useful for predicting any
(placebo?) treatment response?
Study design optimization for prospective testing in Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies
Optimal / standardized CPM protocols
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