Spinal disinhibition: A role in neuropathic pain?

NeuroScience News

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 5-10

  Moore, K A ^a   Kohno, T ^a   Scholz, J ^a   Karchewski, L ^a   Woolf, C J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; GABA; GABAA receptor; GABAB receptor; Glycine; Inhibition; Nerve injury

Indexed keywords

3 AMINOPROPYL(METHYL)PHOSPHINIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID B RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BACLOFEN; BICUCULLINE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MUSCIMOL; STRYCHNINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TARGETING; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0035218333     PISSN: 10276599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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