Glutamate acts as a neurotransmitter for gastrin releasing peptide-sensitive and insensitive itch-related synaptic transmission in mammalian spinal cord

Molecular Pain

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Koga, Kohei ^a   Chen, Tao ^a   Li, Xiang Yao ^a,b   Descalzi, Giannina ^a   Ling, Jennifer ^c   Gu, Jianguo ^c   Zhuo, Min ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; CALCIUM; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTAMINE; PROTEIN FOS; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GENE; MALE; MAMMAL; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOS GENE; PRURITUS; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HISTAMINE; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRURITUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79959408677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-7-47     Document Type: Article

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