Na v1.8 expression is not restricted to nociceptors in mouse peripheral nervous system

Pain

Volumn 153, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2017-2030

  Shields, Shannon D ^a,d   Ahn, Hye Sook ^a,d   Yang, Yang ^a,d   Han, Chongyang ^a,d   Seal, Rebecca P ^b   Wood, John N ^c   Waxman, Stephen G ^a,d   Dib Hajj, Sulayman D ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

C fiber; C LTM; Nociceptive; Scn10a; tdTomato; VGSC

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.8; SCN10A PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL GANGLION; ANIMAL; METABOLISM; PAIN RECEPTOR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NAV1.8 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; NOCICEPTORS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84866429193     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2012.04.022     Document Type: Article

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