Up-regulation of δ-opioid receptors and κ-opioid receptors in the skin of fibromyalgia patients

Arthritis and Rheumatism

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2464-2466

  Salemi, Souzan ^a   Aeschlimann, Andre ^b   Wollina, Uwe ^c   Gay, Renate E ^a   Michel, Beat A ^a   Gay, Steffen ^a   Sprott, Haiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RehaClinic Zurzach ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NOCICEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RECEPTOR DENSITY; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SKIN BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; FIBROMYALGIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RNA, MESSENGER; SKIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34547484456     PISSN: 00043591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/art.22735     Document Type: Article

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