Mustard oil enhances spinal neuronal responses to noxious heat but not cooling

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 461, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 271-274

  Sawyer, Carolyn M ^a   Carstens, Mirela Iodi ^a   Carstens, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Mustard oil; Nociception; Noxious heat; Rat; Skin cooling; Spinal cord; TRPA1

Indexed keywords

ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; MINERAL OIL;

ADULT ANIMAL; ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEATING; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALLYL COMPOUNDS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL AGONISTS; CALCIUM CHANNELS; COLD TEMPERATURE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPERALGESIA; ISOCYANATES; MALE; MUSTARD PLANT; NEURONS; PAIN; PLANT OILS; RATS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 67649979795     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.036     Document Type: Article

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