Glutamate receptors and persistent pain: Targeting forebrain NR2B subunits

Drug Discovery Today

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 259-267

  Zhuo, Min ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMPA RECEPTOR; CELECOXIB; CLONIDINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; DECAHYDRO 6 [2 (1H TETRAZOL 5 YL)ETHYL] 3 ISOQUINOLINECARBOXYLIC ACID; GABAPENTIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; IFENPRODIL; KAINIC ACID RECEPTOR; KETAMINE; MORPHINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; NEOSTIGMINE; NEUROPEPTIDE; OMEGA CONOTOXIN MVIIA; PROTEIN C FOS; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; RO 256981; SUBSTANCE P; TRAXOPRODIL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NR2B NMDA RECEPTOR;

ALLODYNIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSION; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TARGETING; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PLASTICITY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES; FEEDBACK; HUMANS; PAIN; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037082315     PISSN: 13596446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-6446(01)02138-9     Document Type: Review

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