Low pH facilitates capsaicin responses in isolated sensory neurons of the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 5-8

  Kress, M ^a   Fetzer, S ^a   Reeh, P W ^a   Vyklicky, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Acidosis; Cultured dorsal root ganglion neurons; Nociception; Sensitization; Whole cell patch clamp

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ACIDOSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0030582980     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12691-4     Document Type: Article

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