Heat-induced cobalt entry: An assay for heat transduction in cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurons

Neuroscience

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 291-294

  Reichling, D B ^a   Barratt, L ^a   Levine, J D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

hyperalgesia; nociception; non selective cation channel; pain; primary afferent nerve; temperature

Indexed keywords

COBALT; ION CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COBALT; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HEAT; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ION CHANNEL GATING; KINETICS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; TRYPAN BLUE;

EID: 0031056537     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00511-8     Document Type: Article

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