Buthus martensi Karsch agonist of skeletal-muscle RyR-1, a scorpion active polypeptide: Antinociceptive effect on rat peripheral nervous system and spinal cord, and inhibition of voltage-gated Na+ currents in dorsal root ganglion neurons

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 65-68

  Tan, Zhi Yong ^a   Mao, Xia ^b   Xiao, Hang ^b   Zhao, Zhi Qi ^a   Ji, Yong Hua ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Antinociceptive effect; Buthus martensi Karsch agonist of skeletal muscle RyR 1; Scorpion neurotoxin; Voltage gated Na+ channels

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; SCORPION VENOM; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; THERMAL STIMULATION; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HEAT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL; SCORPION VENOMS; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0035846837     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01642-6     Document Type: Article

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