The capsaicin receptor: A heat-activated ion channel in the pain pathway

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6653, 1997, Pages 816-824

  Caterina, Michael J ^a   Schumacher, Mark A ^a   Tominaga, Makoto ^a   Rosen, Tobias A ^a   Levine, Jon D ^a   Julius, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; CAPSAICIN; CATION CHANNEL; ION CHANNEL; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; THERMAL STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CAPSAICIN; CAPSICUM; CELL DEATH; CELL LINE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAT; HUMANS; INSECT PROTEINS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NEUROTOXINS; NOCICEPTORS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PROTONS; RECEPTORS, DRUG; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS; XENOPUS;

EID: 0030777012     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/39807     Document Type: Article

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