Descending controls modulate inflammatory joint pain and regulate CXC chemokine and iNOS expression in the dorsal horn

Molecular Pain

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Carr, Fiona B ^a   Géranton, Sandrine M ^a   Hunt, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 HT; CXCL10; CXCL9; CXCR3; iNOS; Joint pain; Mu opioid receptor; RVM

Indexed keywords

5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; CXCL9 CHEMOKINE; DERMORPHIN; FREUND ADJUVANT; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; SAPORIN; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CXCL10 GENE; CXCL9 GENE; CXCR3 GENE; DESCENDING FACILITATION; FACILITATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROINJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NOS2 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL MEDULLA; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; CHEMOKINES, CXC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RIBOSOME INACTIVATING PROTEINS, TYPE 1; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84903792427     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-10-39     Document Type: Article

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