Estradiol modulates visceral hyperalgesia by increasing thoracolumbar spinal GluN2B subunit activity in female rats

Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 775-786

  Ji, Yaping ^a   Bai, G ^a   Cao, D Y ^a   Traub, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Estradiol; Gonadal hormones; NMDA receptor; Pain; Spinal cord; Visceral nociception

Indexed keywords

4 BENZYL ALPHA (4 HYDROXYPHENYL) BETA METHYL 1 PIPERIDINEPROPANOL; ESTRADIOL; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; SAFFLOWER OIL; ALLYL ISOTHIOCYANATE; ESTROGEN; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NR2B NMDA RECEPTOR; PHENOL DERIVATIVE; PIPERIDINE DERIVATIVE; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; VISCERAL PAIN; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METABOLISM; MUSTARD; OVARIECTOMY; PHOSPHORYLATION; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THORACIC VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLITIS; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MUSTARD PLANT; OVARIECTOMY; PHENOLS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PIPERIDINES; PLANT OILS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPINAL CORD; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84929614210     PISSN: 13501925     EISSN: 13652982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nmo.12549     Document Type: Article

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