Ionotropic glutamate receptors contribute to maintained neuronal hyperexcitability following spinal cord injury in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 321-324

  Leem, Joong Woo ^a   Kim, Hee Kee ^c   Hulsebosch, Claire E ^b   Gwak, Young Seob ^a,b  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central neuropathic pain; Hyperexcitability; MCPG; MK 801; NBQX; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

6 NITRO 7 SULFAMOYLBENZO[F]QUINOXALINE 2,3 DIONE; DIZOCILPINE; IONOTROPIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; MALE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 77953689502     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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