The Journal of Pain
Volume 9, Issue 4 , Pages 298-308 , April 2008

TRPV1 Unlike TRPV2 Is Restricted to a Subset of Mechanically Insensitive Cutaneous Nociceptors Responding to Heat

  • Jeffrey J. Lawson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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  • Sabrina L. McIlwrath

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • C. Jeffery Woodbury

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • ,
  • Brian M. Davis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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  • H. Richard Koerber

      Affiliations

    • Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr. H. Richard Koerber, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 3500 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261.

Received 11 September 2007 ,Revised 4 December 2007 ,Accepted 4 December 2007.

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 Supported by NIH grants NS23725 (H.R.K.) and NS44094 (C.J.W.).

PII: S1526-5900(07)01027-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.12.001

The Journal of Pain
Volume 9, Issue 4 , Pages 298-308 , April 2008

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