Exercise-induced pain requires nmda receptor activation in the medullary raphe nuclei

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 420-427

  Sluka, Kathleen A ^a   Danielson, Jessica ^a   Rasmussen, Lynn ^a   Dasilva, Luis Felipe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b University of Paraiba   (Brazil)

Author keywords

FATIGUE; GLUTAMATE; PAIN; RAPHE MAGNUS; RAPHE OBSCURUS; RAPHE PALLIDUS

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; EXERCISE TEST; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; MOUSE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAPHE NUCLEUS; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; EXERCISE TEST; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICE; MICROINJECTIONS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHOSPHORYLATION; RAPHE NUCLEI; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 84857628532     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31822f490e     Document Type: Article

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