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Lysophosphatidic acid-3 receptor-mediated feed-forward production of lysophosphatidic acid: an initiator of nerve injury-induced neuropathic pain

Lin Ma1 email, Hitoshi Uchida1 email, Jun Nagai1 email, Makoto Inoue1 email, Jerold Chun2 email, Junken Aoki3 email and Hiroshi Ueda1 email

Division of Molecular Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-14 Bunkyo-machi, Nagasaki 852-8521, Japan

Department of Molecular Biology, Helen L. Dorris Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Disorder Institute, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, ICND118, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA

Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

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Molecular Pain 2009, 5:64doi:10.1186/1744-8069-5-64

Published: 13 November 2009

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Additional file 1:

Specificity of LPA measurements using a measure of cell rounding activity in B103 cells. (a) Cell rounding activity of added LPA or S1P to B103 (+) cells. (b) Cell rounding activity of added LPA or tissue extracts to B103 (-) cells. (c) Linearity (y = 5.454x + 5.66, R2 = 0.991) of cell rounding-inducing activity for LPA between 0.15 and 5 pmol in B103 (+) cells, after subtracting the basal activity. All data represent the mean ± SEM from three to four separate experiments. *p < 0.05 compared with the vehicle group. Other details are shown in the legend of Figure 1.

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Gene expression analysis for LPA1, LPA2 and LPA3 receptors in the spinal cord dorsal horn and dorsal root. Expression of LPA1, LPA2 and LPA3 receptors in mouse spinal cord dorsal horn (SC) and dorsal root (DR) by RT-PCR.

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