Publication Date:
2012-10-04
Description:
Ciguatoxins activate specific cold pain pathways to elicit burning pain from cooling The EMBO Journal 31, 3795 (2012). doi:10.1038/emboj.2012.207 Authors: Irina Vetter, Filip Touska, Andreas Hess, Rachel Hinsbey, Simon Sattler, Angelika Lampert, Marina Sergejeva, Anastasia Sharov, Lindon S Collins, Mirjam Eberhardt, Matthias Engel, Peter J Cabot, John N Wood, Viktorie Vlachová, Peter W Reeh, Richard J Lewis & Katharina Zimmermann Ciguatoxins are sodium channel activator toxins that cause ciguatera, the most common form of ichthyosarcotoxism, which presents with peripheral sensory disturbances, including the pathognomonic symptom of cold allodynia which is characterized by intense stabbing and burning pain in response to mild cooling. We show that
Keywords:
ciguatoxincold allodyniaNavnociceptorTRPA1
Print ISSN:
0261-4189
Electronic ISSN:
1460-2075
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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