Article Information
- Received April 11, 2006
- Revision received November 30, 2007
- Accepted December 4, 2007
- First published January 30, 2008.
- Version of record published January 30, 2008.
Author Information
- Departments of 1Endodontics and
- 2Pharmacology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78229
- Correspondence should be addressed to Armen N. Akopian, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900. akopian{at}uthscsa.edu
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Disclosures
- Received April 11, 2006.
- Revision received November 30, 2007.
- Accepted December 4, 2007.
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This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH)–National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Grant DE014928 (A.N.A.) and NIH–National Institute on Drug Abuse Grant DA19585 (K.M.H.). We acknowledge Dr. Xiaoling Sun and Gabriela Helesic for technical assistance with the experiments. We thank Dr. Kevin Kwan and Dr. David Corey (Harvard University, Boston, MA) for providing TRPA1 null-mutant mice; Dr. Andrea Giuffrida (University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX) for kindly gifting CB1 null-mutant mice; Dr. David Julius (University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA) for kindly gifting rTRPV1 cDNA; Dr. Ardem Patapoutian (The Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, CA) for providing TRPA1, TRPV2-TRPV4, and TRPM8 cDNAs; and Dr. Alexandros Makriyannis (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT) for providing the cannabinoid AM1241.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Armen N. Akopian, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900. akopian{at}uthscsa.edu
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