Activation of mammalian target of rapamycin mediates rat pain-related responses induced by BmK I, a sodium channel-specific modulator

Molecular Pain

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jiang, Feng ^a   Pang, Xue Yan ^b   Niu, Qing Shan ^a   Hua, Li Ming ^a   Cheng, Ming ^a   Ji, Yong Hua ^a  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

4E BP1; BmK I; Mirror image mechanical hypersensitivity; mTOR; p70S6K; Pain; Rapamycin

Indexed keywords

INITIATION FACTOR 4E BINDING PROTEIN 1; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 7; RAPAMYCIN; S6 KINASE; SCORPION VENOM; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ENVENOMATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; ENZYME REGULATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; MALE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCORPION VENOMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SODIUM CHANNELS; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84887343229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-9-50     Document Type: Article

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