Voltage-gated sodium channel function and expression in injured and uninjured rat dorsal root ganglia neurons

International Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 182-192

  Yin, Ruoyuan ^a   Liu, Dong ^a   Chhoa, Mark ^a   Li, Chi Ming ^a   Luo, Yi ^a   Zhang, Maosheng ^a   Lehto, Sonya G ^a   Immke, David C ^a   Moyer, Bryan D ^a  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

electrophysiology; Nav; neuropathic pain; tetrodotoxin; transcription

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GALANIN; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.1; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.3; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.4; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.6; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.7; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.8; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.9; TETRODOTOXIN; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE LIGATION; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP; ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HYPERALGESIA; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PHENOMENA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN; VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 84951568354     PISSN: 00207454     EISSN: 15635279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00207454.2015.1004172     Document Type: Article

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