Impaired glycinergic synaptic transmission and enhanced inflammatory pain in mice with reduced expression of vesicular GABA transporter (VGAT)

Molecular Pharmacology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 610-619

  Yamada, Makiko Hardy ^a   Nishikawa, Koichi ^b   Kubo, Kazuhiro ^a   Yanagawa, Yuchio ^a   Saito, Shigeru ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; KETAMINE; POTASSIUM; PROPOFOL; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; INFLAMMATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATCH CLAMP; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DOWN-REGULATION; GLYCINE; INFLAMMATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PAIN; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 84858787676     PISSN: 0026895X     EISSN: 15210111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/mol.111.076083     Document Type: Article

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