Peripheral thermosensation in mammals

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 573-589

  Vriens, Joris ^a   Nilius, Bernd ^b   Voets, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR SIGNALING   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLICIN; ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; CAPSAICIN; CINEOLE; CINNAMALDEHYDE; MENTHOL; PIPERINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL M8; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1 ANTAGONIST; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 3; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 4; CALCIUM ACTIVATED CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CALCIUM RELEASE ACTIVATED CALCIUM CHANNEL 1; STROMAL INTERACTION MOLECULE 1;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CHANNEL GATING; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONFORMATION; CORE TEMPERATURE; COVALENT BOND; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; ION TRANSPORT; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY GANGLION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOGENESIS; THERMORECEPTOR; THERMOREGULATION; ACQUIRED THERMAL HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEREDITY; HYPERSENSITIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMAL STIMULATION; THERMOMETER;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; THERMOSENSING; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNELS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84906327252     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3784     Document Type: Review

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