Nociceptors-Noxious Stimulus Detectors

Neuron

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-364

  Woolf, Clifford J ^a   Ma, Qiufu ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ION CHANNEL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUNX1;

CELL FATE; CELL MATURATION; GENE ACTIVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE MEMBRANE; NEURAL CREST; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANS; ION CHANNELS; NERVE ENDINGS; NEURAL CREST; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 34547184022     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.07.016     Document Type: Review

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