Acid-sensing ion channels and pain: Therapeutic potential?

Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 609-617

  Ugawa, Shinya ^a   Ueda, Takashi ^a   Shimada, Shoichi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acidosis; Amiloride; ASIC; Capsazepine; Nociceptor; Pain; Proton; Psychophysical; TRPV1

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ACID SENSING ION CHANNEL; AMILORIDE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CAPSAZEPINE; CATION; FLURBIPROFEN; IBUPROFEN; ION CHANNEL; PROTON; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ACIDOSIS; ANALGESIA; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; GENE; GENETIC CODE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TISSUE;

EID: 0041375297     PISSN: 14737175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737175.3.5.609     Document Type: Review

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