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In the present work, we identified the following characteristics of this cascade. (1) Local inflammation led to increase in rat dorsal horn phosphorylation (activation) of Akt (pAkt) and mTOR (pmTOR), as assessed by Western blotting and immunocytochemistry. (2) Increased pAkt and pmTOR were prominent in neurons in laminae I, III, and IV, whereas pmTOR and its downstream targets (pS6, p4EBP) were also observed in glial cells. (3) Intrathecal treatment with inhibitors to PI3K or Akt attenuated Formalin-induced second-phase flinching behavior, as well as carrageenan-induced thermal hyperalgesia and tactile allodynia. (4) Intrathecal rapamycin (an mTORC1 inhibitor) displayed anti-hyperalgesic effect in both inflammatory pain models. Importantly, intrathecal wortmannin at anti-hyperalgesic doses reversed the evoked increase not only in Akt but also in mTORC1 signaling (pS6\/p4EBP). (5) pAkt and pmTOR are expressed in neurokinin 1 receptor-positive neurons in laminae I\u2013III after peripheral inflammation. Intrathecal injection of Substance P activated this cascade (increased phosphorylation) and resulted in hyperalgesia, both of which effects were blocked by intrathecal wortmannin and rapamycin. 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