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Genotype-dependent responsivity to inflammatory pain: A role for TRPV1 in the periaqueductal grey.
Pharmacological research - 1 Nov 2016
Madasu Manish K, Okine Bright N, Olango Weredeselam M, Rea Kieran, Lenihan Róisín, Roche Michelle, Finn David P
Abstract excerpt
Negative affective state has a significant impact on pain, and genetic background is an important moderating influence on this interaction. The Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) inbred rat strain exhibits a stress-hyperresponsive, anxiety/depressive-like phenotype and also displays a hyperalgesic response to noxious stimuli. Transient receptor potential subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1) within the midbrain periaqueductal grey (PAG)...
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