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Chemokine-mediated interactions between neurons and microglia are important steps for neuroinflammation and excitatory synaptic plasticity during the spinal transmission of pathological pain. Recently, glabridin, the main bioactive component of licorice, has been shown to exhibit anti-nociceptive and neuroprotective properties for inflammatory pain. This present study evaluated the therapeutic potential of glabridin and its analgesic mechanisms using a mouse model of tibial fracture-associated chronic pain. Repetitive injections of glabridin were delivered spinally daily for 4 continuous days from days 3 to 6 after the fractures. Herein, we discovered that repeated administrations of glabridin (10 and 50 \u03bcg, but not 1 \u03bcg) could prevent prolonged cold allodynia and mechanical allodynia following bone fractures. A single intrathecal intervention with glabridin (50 \u03bcg) relieved an existing chronic allodynia two weeks following the fracture surgeries. Systemic therapies with glabridin (intraperitoneal; 50 mg kg\u22121) were protective against long-lasting allodynia caused by fractures. Furthermore, glabridin restricted the fracture-caused spinal overexpressions of the chemokine fractalkine and its receptor CX3CR1, as well as the elevated number of microglial cells and dendritic spines. Strikingly, glabridin induced the inhibition of pain behaviors, microgliosis, and spine generation, which were abolished with the co-administration of exogenous fractalkine. Meanwhile, the exogenous fractalkine-evoked acute pain was compensated after microglia inhibition. Additionally, spinal neutralization of fractalkine\/CX3CR1 signaling alleviated the intensity of postoperative allodynia after tibial fractures. These key findings identify that glabridin therapies confer protection against inducing and sustaining fracture-elicited chronic allodynia by suppressing fractalkine\/CX3CR1-dependent spinal microgliosis and spine morphogenesis, suggesting that glabridin is a promising candidate in the translational development of chronic fracture pain control.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/brainsci13050739","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,5,1]],"date-time":"2023-05-01T12:14:08Z","timestamp":1682943248000},"page":"739","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Glabridin Therapy Reduces Chronic Allodynia, Spinal Microgliosis, and Dendritic Spine Generation by Inhibiting Fractalkine-CX3CR1 Signaling in a Mouse Model of Tibial Fractures"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Juan","family":"Long","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China"},{"name":"Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Wenzhou 325000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hongbing","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China"},{"name":"Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Wenzhou 325000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhimin","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China"},{"name":"Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Wenzhou 325000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhong","family":"Xiao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China"},{"name":"Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Wenzhou 325000, China"},{"name":"Intensive Care Unit, Shaoxing People\u2019s Hospital, Shaoxing 312000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhongqiu","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Emergency Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou 325000, China"},{"name":"Wenzhou Key Laboratory of Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Wenzhou 325000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e807","DOI":"10.1016\/S2214-109X(17)30222-X","article-title":"National incidence of traumatic fractures in China: A retrospective survey of 512,187 individuals","volume":"5","author":"Chen","year":"2017","journal-title":"Lancet Glob. 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