We have previously reported that, after induction of peripheral joint inflammation, MeCP2 was phosphorylated in rat superficial dorsal horn and lamina I/III projection neurones, and that expression of SGK1, a protein under transcriptional repression by MeCP2, also expressed in lamina I/III projection neurones, increased in the superficial dorsal horn in an inflammatory pain state [7]. Here, SGK1 is linked to inflammatory response.