Descending serotonergic facilitation of spinal ERK activation and pain behavior

FEBS Letters

Volumn 580, Issue 28-29, 2006, Pages 6629-6634

  Svensson, Camilla I ^a   Tran, Thao K ^a   Fitzsimmons, Bethany ^a   Yaksh, Tony L ^a   Hua, Xiao Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Descending facilitation; ERK; Nociception; Primary afferent; Serotonin; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; FORMALDEHYDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NEUROTOXIN; ONDANSETRON; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FACILITATION; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FOOT; FORMALDEHYDE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PAIN; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 34248226218     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2006.11.012     Document Type: Article

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