Nature Communications (Feb 2016)

Intracellular mGluR5 plays a critical role in neuropathic pain

  • Kathleen Vincent,
  • Virginia M. Cornea,
  • Yuh-Jiin I. Jong,
  • André Laferrière,
  • Naresh Kumar,
  • Aiste Mickeviciute,
  • Jollee S. T. Fung,
  • Pouya Bandegi,
  • Alfredo Ribeiro-da-Silva,
  • Karen L. O’Malley,
  • Terence J. Coderre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10604
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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mGluR5 has been shown to play a role in chronic pain regulation. Here, the authors use membrane permeable and non-transported, impermeable mGluR5 antagonists to show that spinal analgesic effects in vivoare mediated by intracellular rather than cell surface mGluR5.