Role of spinal cord glutamate transporter during normal sensory transmission and pathological pain states

Molecular Pain

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Tao, Yuan Xiang ^a   Gu, Jianguo ^b   Stephens Jr , Robert L ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; RILUZOLE;

ALLODYNIA; AMINO ACID METABOLISM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT SYSTEM X-AG; ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMANS; PAIN; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33747857740     PISSN: 17448069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-1-30     Document Type: Review

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