Transmitting Pain and Itch Messages: A Contemporary View of the Spinal Cord Circuits that Generate Gate Control

Neuron

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 522-536

  Braz, João ^a   Solorzano, Carlos ^a   Wang, Xidao ^a   Basbaum, AllanI ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

CELL INTERACTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONNECTOME; DORSAL HORN INTERNEURON; EXCITATORY INTERNEURON; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GATE CONTROL THEORY; GLYCINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INHIBITORY INTERNEURON; INTERNEURON; MECHANORECEPTOR; MICROGLIA; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD CIRCUIT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; PAIN; PRURITUS; SENSORY GATING; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84899800790     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.018     Document Type: Review

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