The menthol receptor TRPM8 is the principal detector of environmental cold

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7150, 2007, Pages 204-208

  Bautista, Diana M ^a,b   Siemens, Jan ^a,b   Glazer, Joshua M ^c   Tsuruda, Pamela R ^a,b   Basbaum, Allan I ^a   Stucky, Cheryl L ^c   Jordt, Sven Eric ^d   Julius, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MENTHOL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL MELASTATIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CLIMATE; COLD AIR; COLD TOLERANCE; DETECTION METHOD; METHANOL; RODENT; SENSORY SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; TEMPERATURE SENSE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 34447542435     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05910     Document Type: Article

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