Oxytocin-induced analgesia and scratching are mediated by the vasopressin-1A receptor in the mouse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 8274-8284

  Schorscher Petcu, Ara ^a,b   Sotocinal, Susana ^c   Ciura, Sorana ^a   Dupré, Anouk ^d   Ritchie, Jennifer ^c   Sorge, Robert E ^c   Crawley, Jacqueline N ^e   Hu, Shuang Bao ^e   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^f   Young, Larry J ^g   Tribollet, Eliane ^d   Quirion, Rémi ^a,b   Mogil, Jeffrey S ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; FORMALDEHYDE; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRATCHING; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; WILD TYPE;

ANALGESICS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; ORNIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS;

EID: 77953773979     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1594-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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