Potentiation of spinal α2-adrenoceptor analgesia in rats deficient in TRPV1-expressing afferent neurons

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1624-1630

  Chen, Shao Rui ^a   Pan, Hao Min ^a   Richardson, Timothy E ^a   Pan, Hui Lin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Sensory neurons; Spinal cord; TRPV1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CLONIDINE; RESINIFERATOXIN; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CLONIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-2; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 34249751602     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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