Rapid regulation of pain by estrogens synthesized in spinal dorsal horn neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 33, 2004, Pages 7225-7229

  Evrard, Henry C ^a,b   Balthazart, Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Aromatase inhibitor; Bird; Estrogens; Membrane estrogen receptor; Nongenomic effects; Rapid effects

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTA 1,4,6 TRIENE 3,17 DIONE; AROMATASE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE RECEPTOR; TESTOSTERONE; VOROZOLE; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; ENZYME INHIBITOR; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTROGEN SYNTHESIS; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THERMAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CATHETERIZATION; COTURNIX; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; HEAT; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KINETICS; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL;

ANIMALS; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; COTURNIX; ENZYME INHIBITORS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; HEAT; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; KINETICS; MALE; ORCHIECTOMY; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; TESTOSTERONE; TRIAZOLES;

EID: 7244232694     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1638-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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