NK-1-receptor-mediated lesion of spinal post-synaptic dorsal column neurons might improve intractable visceral pain of cancer origin

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 102-104

  Wang, Yun ^a,b   Mu, Xiaobo ^a,c   Liu, Yang ^a   Zhang, Xuena ^a   Wu, Anshi ^a   Yue, Yun ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; SAPORIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER PAIN; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE PAIN; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACODYNAMICS; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TARGETING; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; VISCERAL PAIN;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEOPLASMS; NEURONS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; SPINE;

EID: 78650173721     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.08.042     Document Type: Article

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