The role of ERK activation in the neuronal excitability in the chronically compressed dorsal root ganglia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 419, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-157

  Zhang, Yili ^a   Cai, Guojun ^a   Ni, Xin ^a   Sun, Jihu ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

MAP kinase; Nerve injury; Neuropathic pain; Phosphorylation; Potassium conductance

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; LIGATION; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RADICULOPATHY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34248184530     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.04.040     Document Type: Article

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