Role of cation-chloride-cotransporters (CCC) in pain and hyperalgesia

Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 547-555

  Price, Theodore J ^a   Cervero, Fernando ^a   de Koninck, Yves ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chloride cotransporters; GABA; Glycine; Hyperalgesia; Pain

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; BUMETANIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; CATION CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; CHLORINE; COTRANSPORTER; FUROSEMIDE; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PIRETANIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; POTASSIUM ION; PROTEIN KINASE C ALPHA; SODIUM ION; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DEPOLARIZATION; DORSAL ROOT POTENTIAL; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG TARGETING; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; UPREGULATION;

ANALGESICS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; HYPERALGESIA; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-CHLORIDE SYMPORTERS; SYMPORTERS;

EID: 22944431858     PISSN: 15680266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1568026054367629     Document Type: Review

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