Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 regulates excitability and kv4.2-containing k+ channels primarily in excitatory neurons of the spinal dorsal horn

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3010-3021

  Hu, Hui Juan ^a   Gereau, Robert W ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central sensitization; Glutamate decarboxylase gad67; Neurokinin 1 receptor; Nociception; Pain; Protein kinase c ,3,5 dihydroxyphenylglycine; Spinal cord; Vesicular glutamate transport

Indexed keywords

3,5 DIHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCINE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; SHAL POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MODULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOPHYSICS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; METHOXYHYDROXYPHENYLGLYCOL; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; SHAL POTASSIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 79959352746     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01050.2010     Document Type: Article

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