Stress exacerbates neuropathic pain via glucocorticoid and NMDA receptor activation

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 851-860

  Alexander, Jessica K ^a   DeVries, A Courtney ^a   Kigerl, Kristina A ^a   Dahlman, Jason M ^a   Popovich, Phillip G ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERK; Glucocorticoids; Glutamate; Inflammation; Microglia; Pain

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MEMANTINE; MIFEPRISTONE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; HORMONE RESPONSE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INFLAMMATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MENTAL STRESS; MICROGLIA; MOUSE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SENSITIZATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MIFEPRISTONE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67649880349     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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