A peripheral neuroimmune link: Glutamate agonists upregulate NMDA NR1 receptor mRNA and protein, vimentin, TNF-α, and RANTES in cultured human synoviocytes

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 298, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  McNearney, Terry A ^a   Ma, Yinghong ^a   Chen, Yueping ^a   Taglialatela, Giulio ^a   Yin, Huaizhi ^a   Zhang, Wen Ru ^a   Westlund, Karin N ^b,c  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Cytokines, protein kinase C; Glutamate receptor; Neurogenic inflammation; Pain

Indexed keywords

1 AMINO 1,3 CYCLOPENTANEDICARBOXYLIC ACID; BLOCKING ANTIBODY; CD11B ANTIGEN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3D RECEPTOR; CYTOKINE; DIZOCILPINE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A; PHORBOL 13 ACETATE 12 MYRISTATE; PROTEIN KINASE INHIBITOR; RANTES; SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VIMENTIN;

ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; AUTOCRINE EFFECT; CELL CLONE; CELL CULTURE; CELL LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOMODULATION; JOINT CAPSULE; KNEE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PARACRINE SIGNALING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNOVIOCYTE; TARGET CELL; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; ARTHRITIS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHEMOKINE CCL5; CYCLOLEUCINE; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; NEUROIMMUNOMODULATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; RECEPTORS, COMPLEMENT 3D; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SARCOMA, SYNOVIAL; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE; SYNOVITIS; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UP-REGULATION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 77749306134     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: 15221490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00452.2009     Document Type: Article

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