Spinal neurons that contain gastrin-releasing peptide seldom express Fos or phosphorylate extracellular signal-regulated kinases in response to intradermal chloroquine

Molecular Pain

Volumn 12, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Bell, Andrew M ^a   Gutierrez Mecinas, Maria ^a   Polgár, Erika ^a   Todd, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

interneuron; Itch; pERK; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CHLOROQUINE; GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PROTEIN FOS; STRESS ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SURVIVAL TIME; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; ODDS RATIO; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CHLOROQUINE; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; ODDS RATIO; PHOSPHORYLATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS;

EID: 85007429408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1744806916649602     Document Type: Article

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