Protein kinase A-dependent enhanced NMDA receptor function in pain-related synaptic plasticity in rat amygdala neurones

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 564, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 907-921

  Bird, Gary C ^a   Lash, L Leanne ^a   Han, Jeong S ^a   Zou, Xiaoju ^a   Willis, William D ^a   Neugebauer, Volker ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PKA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VOLTAGE CLAMP; WHOLE CELL;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRITIS, EXPERIMENTAL; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; KAOLIN; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 18944385810     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2005.084780     Document Type: Article

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