Capsaicin facilitates excitatory but not inhibitory synaptic transmission in substantia gelatinosa of the rat spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 135-138

  Yang, Kun ^a   Kumamoto, Eiichi ^a   Furue, Hidemasa ^a   Yoshimura, Megumu ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Capsazepine; Dorsal horn; Pain; Patch clamp; Primary afferent; Slice; Transmitter release

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; CAPSAZEPINE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0032561203     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00730-7     Document Type: Article

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