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Neuropathic pain develops as a result of lesions or disease affecting the somatosensory nervous system either in the periphery or centrally. Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) plays an important role in the initiation of neuropathic pain but the underlying mechanisms are still unclear.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0317167100013962_abs2\"><jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Adult male Wistar rats were given chronic constriction injury (CCI) or sham operations. Part of CCI rats were intrathecally treated with HS014 (MC4R antagonist) or SB203580 (p38MAPK inhibitor). On the third, seventh and fourteenth day, the thermal threshold of operated paws was tested. In addition, the MC4R or phosphorylated p38MAPK (p-p38MAPK) levels of lumbar spinal cord were tested with ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay), western blot and immunohistochemistry.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0317167100013962_abs3\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Here we demonstrate that (1) both HS014 and SB203580 reduced CCI reduced hyperalgesia (2) p-p38MAPK was increased after CCI with a time course parallel to that of the MC4R change, (3) The p38 activation was prevented by blocking MC4R with an antagonist HS014, but MC4R-IR was not prevented by SB203580. (4) MC4R and p-p38MAPK were located in the same cells.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0317167100013962_abs4\"><jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title><jats:p>The mechanisms of neuropathic pain mediated by MC4R is related to the inhibition of p38MAPK activation. 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