Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 contributes to inflammatory tongue pain via extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling in the trigeminal spinal subnucleus caudalis and upper cervical spinal cord

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liu, Ming Gang ^a,b   Matsuura, Shingo ^a   Shinoda, Masamichi ^a   Honda, Kuniya ^a   Suzuki, Ikuko ^a   Shibuta, Kazuo ^a   Tamagawa, Takaaki ^a   Katagiri, Ayano ^a,c   Kiyomoto, Masaaki ^a   Ohara, Kinuyo ^a   Furukawa, Akihiko ^a   Urata, Kentaro ^a   Iwata, Koichi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracellular signal regulated kinase; Inflammation; Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5; Tongue pain; Trigeminal subnucleus caudalis; Upper cervical spinal cord

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; 2 METHYL 6 (2 PHENYLVINYL)PYRIDINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFICACY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; MALE; MOUTH PAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; TONGUE PAIN; TRIGEMINAL SPINAL SUBNUCLEUS CAUDALIS;

EID: 84869888652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17422094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-2094-9-258     Document Type: Article

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