Increased sensitivity to inflammatory pain induced by subcutaneous formalin injection in serine racemase knock-out mice.

D-Serine, an endogenous coagonist of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR), is widely distributed in the central nervous system and is synthesized from L-serine by serine racemase (SR). NMDAR plays an important role in pain processing including central sensitization that eventually causes hypera...

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Main Authors: Ayako Tabata-Imai, Ran Inoue, Hisashi Mori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4136830?pdf=render