1. DREAM is a critical transcriptional repressor for pain modulation
- Author
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Cheng, Hai-Ying M., Pitcher, Graham M., Laviolette, Steven R., Whishaw, Ian Q., Tong, Kit I., Kockeritz, Lisa K., Wada, Teiji, Joza Nicholas A., Crackower, Michael, Goncalves, Jason, Sarosi, Ildiko, Woodgett, James R., Oliveira-dos-Santos, Antonio J., Ikura, Mitsuhiko, der Kooy, Derek van, Salter, Michael W., and Penninger, Josef
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Calcium-binding proteins -- Physiological aspects ,Genetic transcription -- Analysis ,Nociceptors -- Physiological aspects ,Pain -- Physiological aspects ,Biological sciences - Abstract
Results demonstrate that the calcium-sensing protein DREAM is involved in pain processing. Mutants lacking this protein respond poorly to acute thermal, mechanical, and visceral pain as well as to chronic neuropathic and inflammatory pain.
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- 2002