A cold- and menthol-activated current in rat dorsal root ganglion neurones: Properties and role in cold transduction

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 545, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 595-614

  Reid, Gordon ^a   Babes, Alexandru ^a   Pluteanu, Florentina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 [2 (4 METHOXYPHENYL) 2 [3 (4 METHOXYPHENYL)PROPOXY]ETHYL] 1H IMIDAZOLE; CALCIUM ION; CAPSAICIN; CAPSAZEPINE; MENTHOL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SODIUM ION;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL SCREENING; CELL SELECTION; CHANNEL GATING; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD SENSITIVITY; COLD TOLERANCE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CULTURE MEDIUM; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; ISOMERISM; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SLOW INWARD CURRENT; SPINAL GANGLION; STEREOSPECIFICITY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMORECEPTOR; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CALCIUM CURRENT; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CATION TRANSPORT; COLD TRANSDUCTION; DEPOLARIZATION; INHIBITION KINETICS; ISOMER; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIMARY CULTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SODIUM CURRENT; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CAPSAICIN; COLD; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMIDAZOLES; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MENTHOL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM; STEREOISOMERISM; THERMORECEPTORS;

EID: 0036902062     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.024331     Document Type: Article

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