Facilitation of responses to AMPA but not kainate by cyclothiazide in primate somatosensory thalamus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-20

  Dougherty, P M ^a   Mittman, S ^a   Lenz, F A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Excitatory amino acids; Microiontophoresis; Monkey; Pain

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; CYCLOTHIAZIDE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID; KAINIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; MALE; MICROIONTOPHORESIS; MONKEY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SKIN; THALAMUS;

ALPHA-AMINO-3-HYDROXY-5-METHYL-4-ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANIMALS; BENZOTHIADIAZINES; DRUG SYNERGISM; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GLUTAMIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0032540413     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00214-6     Document Type: Article

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