Decreased pain threshold and enhanced synaptic transmission in the anterior cingulate cortex of experimental hypothyroidism mice

Molecular Pain

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yi, Jun ^a   Zheng, Jian yong ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Wang, Shan ^a   Yang, Zhi fu ^a   Dou, Ke feng ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anterior cingulate cortex; Pain; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE; DRINKING WATER; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; LIOTHYRONINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; POTASSIUM PERCHLORATE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EXPERIMENTAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GYRUS CINGULI; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERCHLORATES; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84902302008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-10-38     Document Type: Article

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