Capsazepine, a novel capsaicin antagonist, selectively antagonises the effects of capsaicin in the mouse spinal cord in vitro

L Urban, A Dray - Neuroscience letters, 1991 - Elsevier
The mouse hemisected spinal cord with attached dorsal roots and spinal ganglia in vitro
preparation was used to investigate the effects of the capsaicin antagonist, capsazepine (2 …

Action of capsaicin on dorsal root-evoked synaptic transmission to substantia gelatinosa neurons in adult rat spinal cord slices

K Yang, E Kumamoto, H Furue, YQ Li, M Yoshimura - Brain research, 1999 - Elsevier
An action of capsaicin was investigated on dorsal root-evoked synaptic transmission to
substantia gelatinosa (SG) neurons in adult rat spinal cord slices by use of the whole-cell …

Synaptic activation of dorsal horn neurons by selective C-fibre excitation with capsaicin in the mouse spinal cord in vitro

L Urban, A Dray - Neuroscience, 1992 - Elsevier
Abstract Low doses (0.2–0.8 μM) of capsaicin were used to achieve selective excitation of C-
fibres and the consequent synaptic activation of dorsal horn neurons (laminae I–VI) in the …

The acute and chronic effects of capsaicin on slow excitatory transmission in rat dorsal horn

L Urba, J Willetts, M Randic, RE Papka - Brain research, 1985 - Elsevier
The acute and chronic effects of capsaicin on rat spinal dorsal horn neurons and the
excitatory transmission in the dorsal horn were investigated by means of intracellular …

Selective antagonism of capsaicin by capsazepine: evidence for a spinal receptor site in capsaicin‐induced antinociception

AH Dickenson, A Dray - British journal of pharmacology, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
1 Capsazepine has recently been described as a competitive capsaicin antagonist. We have
used this compound to test the hypotheses that the in vitro and in vivo effects of capsaicin …

Capsaicin induces a slow inward current which is not mediated by substance P in substantia gelatinosa neurons of the rat spinal cord

K Yang, E Kumamoto, H Furue, YQ Li, M Yoshimura - Neuropharmacology, 2000 - Elsevier
Whole-cell voltage-clamp techniques were employed to investigate a capsaicin-induced
current in substantia gelatinosa (SG) neurons in the dorsal horn of adult rat spinal cord …

Capsaicin facilitates excitatory but not inhibitory synaptic transmission in substantia gelatinosa of the rat spinal cord

K Yang, E Kumamoto, H Furue, M Yoshimura - Neuroscience letters, 1998 - Elsevier
Actions of capsaicin were examined on synaptic transmissions in the substantia gelatinosa
(SG) of adult rat spinal cord slices using the whole-cell patch-recording technique. Bath …

Actions of capsaicin on mouse dorsal root ganglion cells in vitro

L Urban, A Dray - Neuroscience letters, 1993 - Elsevier
The effects of capsaicin were investigated on different populations of dorsal root ganglion
cells in the in vitro mouse spinal cord-dorsal root ganglion preparation using intracellular …

Antinociception produced by capsaicin: spinal or peripheral mechanism?

A Dickenson, N Ashwood, AF Sullivan, I James… - European journal of …, 1990 - Elsevier
We have studied the effects of capsaicin, administered at concentrations found to be
antinociceptive in behavioural tests, on nociceptive responses evoked both in spinal dorsal …

Mechanism of action of capsaicin-like molecules on sensory neurons

A Dray - Life sciences, 1992 - Elsevier
Capsaicin produces pain by selectively activating polymodal nociceptive neurons. This
involves a membrane depolarization and the opening of a unique, cation-selective, ion …