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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-2-4
pubmed:abstractText
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to an increase in metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 (mGluR1) immunoreactivity in the peri-lesion area. The increased expression of mGluR1 parallels the development of thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia and has been suggested to contribute to the development and maintenance of chronic central pain (CCP) syndromes resulting from SCI. However, expression of mGluR1 has not been directly shown to increase on cells in the pain pathway. Therefore, the expression of mGluR1 on spinothalamic tract (STT) neurons was quantified using confocal imaging and densiometric analysis in normal, sham, and SCI rats. Contusion SCI produced an increase in mGluR1 expression on STT cells in both the cervical enlargement and the spinal section just rostral to contusion SCI. These results suggest that mGluR1 is expressed on neurons that modulate pain transmission and expression on these cells increases following injury, supporting the hypothesis that mGluR1 contributes to CCP following SCI.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0304-3940
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
319
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
59-62
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Cell Count, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Cervical Vertebrae, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Fluorescent Dyes, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Immunohistochemistry, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Male, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Microscopy, Confocal, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Neurons, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Pain, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Pain Measurement, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Rats, Sprague-Dawley, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Spinal Cord Injuries, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Spinothalamic Tracts, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Stilbamidines, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Synaptic Transmission, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Thoracic Vertebrae, pubmed-meshheading:11825670-Up-Regulation
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
Increased expression of metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 1 on spinothalamic tract neurons following spinal cord injury in the rat.
pubmed:affiliation
The Department of Anatomy and Neurosciences, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, 77555-1043, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't