Metabotropic glutamate receptor subtypes 1 and 5 are activators of extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling required for inflammatory pain in mice

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 3771-3779

  Karim, Farzana ^a   Wang, Chia Chuan ^a,b   Gereau IV, Robert W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Extracellular signal regulated kinases (ERKs); Formalin test; Mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK); Nociception; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTOR CELL; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME REGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LIGAND BINDING; MOUSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0035371317     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.21-11-03771.2001     Document Type: Article

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