Publication Date:
2000-04-15
Description:
The capsaicin (vanilloid) receptor VR1 is a cation channel expressed by primary sensory neurons of the "pain" pathway. Heterologously expressed VR1 can be activated by vanilloid compounds, protons, or heat (〉43 degrees C), but whether this channel contributes to chemical or thermal sensitivity in vivo is not known. Here, we demonstrate that sensory neurons from mice lacking VR1 are severely deficient in their responses to each of these noxious stimuli. VR1-/- mice showed normal responses to noxious mechanical stimuli but exhibited no vanilloid-evoked pain behavior, were impaired in the detection of painful heat, and showed little thermal hypersensitivity in the setting of inflammation. Thus, VR1 is essential for selective modalities of pain sensation and for tissue injury-induced thermal hyperalgesia.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Caterina, M J -- Leffler, A -- Malmberg, A B -- Martin, W J -- Trafton, J -- Petersen-Zeitz, K R -- Koltzenburg, M -- Basbaum, A I -- Julius, D -- NS07265/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Apr 14;288(5464):306-13.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0450, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10764638" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Body Temperature/drug effects
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Calcium/metabolism
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Capsaicin/metabolism/*pharmacology
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Cells, Cultured
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Diterpenes/pharmacology
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Ganglia, Spinal/cytology
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Gene Targeting
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Hot Temperature
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Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
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Inflammation/physiopathology
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Mice
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Mice, Knockout
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Nerve Fibers/physiology
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Neurons/physiology
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Neurons, Afferent/*physiology
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Nociceptors/*physiology
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Pain/*physiopathology
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Pain Threshold
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Receptors, Drug/*physiology
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Spinal Cord/cytology/physiology
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TRPV Cation Channels
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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