Andi Sitti Hajrah Yusuf

Dr. Andi Sitti Hajrah Yusuf

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1Year (2026-Present)

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14 July 2026 in Biomedicines
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AYAndi Sitti Hajrah Yusuf
Andi Sitti Hajrah Yusuf
MHMana Hasegawa
Mana Hasegawa
YIYuya Iwamoto
Yuya Iwamoto
TKTakumi Kato
Takumi Kato
AAAditya Anugrah
Aditya Anugrah
KOKeiichiro Okamoto
Keiichiro Okamoto
Background/Objectives: Regular physical exercise conditioning attenuates nociceptive responses. However, it remains unclear whether physical exercise performed before local inflammation exerts prolonged preventive effects. This study determined whether treadmill run (TR) preconditioning produces sustained preventive effects on craniofacial nociception and associated brain responses following persistent craniofacial inflammation. Methods: Male C57BL/6J mice were assigned to sedentary or TR groups. Daily TR conditioning was performed for 10 days before masseter muscle injection of complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA) on Day 0. Craniofacial-pain- and related anxiety-like behaviors were determined by the orofacial formalin, elevated plus maze, and open-field tests before and 3 (CFA3) or 7 (CFA7) days after CFA injection. Brain responses in the amygdala, insular cortex, hippocampal CA1, and primary motor cortex were assessed using multiple epigenetic- and neural-activity-related markers. Results: Under sedentary conditions, both CFA3 and CFA7 groups showed increased pain- and anxiety-like behaviors and elevated expression of epigenetic- and neural-activity-related markers in most brain regions. TR preconditioning attenuated these behavioral responses even three and seven days after TR cessation and altered the expression of epigenetic markers in several brain regions, although the direction of change varied by region and time point. TR preconditioning consistently reduced the expression of neural activity markers in most brain areas in both the CFA3 and CFA7 groups, with a few exceptions. Conclusions: TR preconditioning exerted prolonged preventive effects on craniofacial-pain-like behaviors and associated brain responses following craniofacial inflammation.