Increased glutamate and decreased glycine release in the rostral ventromedial medulla during induction of a pre-clinical model of chronic widespread muscle pain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 457, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 141-145

  Radhakrishnan, Rajan ^a   Sluka, Kathleen A ^b  

^a University of Southern Nevada   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate; HPLC; Hyperalgesia; Microdialysis; Pain

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ARTICLE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICRODIALYSIS; MYALGIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ACIDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICRODIALYSIS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY SYSTEM AGENTS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 67349259073     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.03.086     Document Type: Article

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