Role of capsaicin-sensitive C-fiber afferents in neuropathic pain-induced synaptic potentiation in the nociceptive amygdala

Molecular Pain

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nakao, Ayano ^a   Takahashi, Yukari ^a   Nagase, Masashi ^a   Ikeda, Ryo ^a   Kato, Fusao ^a,b  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Capsular part of the central nucleus of the amygdala; Emotion; Excitatory postsynaptic currents; Minimal stimulation; Parabrachial nucleus; Tactile allodynia

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

ALLODYNIA; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; C FIBER AFFERENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATERAL PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SYNAPSE POTENTIATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURALGIA; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84863508251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-8-51     Document Type: Article

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