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JOURNAL OF ENDODONTICS
卷 33, 期 7, 页码 827-829出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2007.03.013
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human; immunocytochemistry; pain; potassium channel; pulp
Kv1.4, a subunit of voltage-gated K+ channels, plays a large role in regulating neuronal excitability. The level of Kv1.4 expression is unknown in human sensory neurons innervating healthy or painful tissue. Therefore, we examined Kv1.4 immunoreactivity in axons innervating both clinically diagnosed asymptomatic and painful symptomatic human tooth pulp. Antibodies directed against Kv1.4 and PGP9.5, a protein marker for axons, was used to determine the proportion of PGP9.5 immunopositive tissue that was also immunopositive for 01.4. We report that on pulpal axons innervating symptomatic teeth Kv1.4 immunoreactivity, a correlate of decreased 01.4 expression, is significantly decreased (p < 0.0001), suggestive of a factor responsible for facilitating chronic dental pain and decreases in currents produced, such as I-A, in neurons innervating painful pulp.
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