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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Neuroscience Année : 2021

Heat emitting damage in skin: a thermal pathway for mechanical algesia

Tom Vincent-Dospital
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Knut Jørgen Måløy
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Mechanical pain (or mechanical algesia) can both be a vital mechanism warning us for dangers or an undesired medical symptom important to mitigate. Thus, a comprehensive understanding of the different mechanisms responsible for this type of pain is paramount. In this work, we study the tearing of porcine skin in front of an infrared camera, and show that mechanical injuries in biological tissues can generate enough heat to stimulate the neural network. In particular, we report local temperature elevations of up to 24 degrees Celsius around fast cutaneous ruptures, which shall exceed the threshold of the neural nociceptors usually involved in thermal pain. Slower fractures exhibit lower temperature elevations, and we characterise such dependency to the damaging rate. Overall, we bring experimental evidence of a novel - thermal - pathway for direct mechanical algesia. In addition, the implications of this pathway are discussed for mechanical hyperalgesia, in which a role of the cutaneous thermal sensors has priorly been suspected. We also show that thermal dissipation shall actually account for a significant portion of the total skin's fracture energy, making temperature monitoring an efficient way to detect biological damages.
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hal-03381168 , version 1 (15-10-2021)

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Tom Vincent-Dospital, Renaud Toussaint, Knut Jørgen Måløy. Heat emitting damage in skin: a thermal pathway for mechanical algesia. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021, ⟨10.3389/fnins.2021.780623⟩. ⟨hal-03381168⟩
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