Thermotrp channels and beyond: Mechanisms of temperature sensation

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 529-539

  Patapoutian, Ardem ^a,b   Peier, Andrea M ^b   Story, Gina M ^a   Viswanath, Veena ^b  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ION CHANNEL; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ANKTM1; PROTEIN BNC1; PROTEIN P2X3; PROTEIN TREK 1; PROTEIN TRPM8; PROTEIN TRPV2; PROTEIN TRPV3; PROTEIN TRPV4; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUMMER; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; WINE; ANIMAL; CHANNEL GATING; CHEMISTRY; COLD; HEAT; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; THERMORECEPTOR; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; COLD; HEAT; HUMANS; ION CHANNEL GATING; ION CHANNELS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMORECEPTORS;

EID: 0043209362     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1141     Document Type: Article

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