Endogenous activation of presynaptic NMDA receptors enhances glutamate release from the primary afferents in the spinal dorsal horn in a rat model of neuropathic pain

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2001-2019

  Yan, Xisheng ^a,b   Jiang, Enshe ^b,c   Gao, Mei ^a   Weng, Han Rong ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPSE; UPREGULATION; VOLTAGE CLAMP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIGATION; MALE; N-METHYLASPARTATE; NEURALGIA; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SERINE; SPINAL NERVES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84875675582     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.250522     Document Type: Article

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