Involvement of primary afferent C-fibres in touch-evoked pain (allodynia) induced by prostaglandin E2

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1849-1856

  Minami, Toshiaki ^a   Okuda Ashitaka, Emiko ^b   Hori, Yuuichi ^c   Sakuma, Satoru ^b   Sugimoto, Tetsuo ^b   Sakimura, Kenji ^d   Mishina, Masayoshi ^e   Ito, Seiji ^b  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Knockout mice; Morphine; NMDA; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; MORPHINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; PROSTAGLANDIN F2 ALPHA;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE TRACT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TOUCH;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; DINOPROSTONE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAT; HYPERESTHESIA; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPINAL CORD; TOUCH;

EID: 0033045466     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.1999.00602.x     Document Type: Article

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