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Up-Regulation of Akt and Nav1.8 in BmK I-Induced Pain

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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31571032, 31771191, and 81402903). ZYT was supported by an Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund grant (ISCBIRF2017) from the Indiana State Department of Health.

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  1. Guokun Zhou and Yunlu Jiao have contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Lab of Neuropharmacology and Neurotoxicology, Shanghai University, Shanghai, 200444, China

    Guokun Zhou, Yunlu Jiao, You Zhou, Shichao Qin, Jie Tao & Yong-Hua Ji

  2. Xinhua Translational Institute for Cancer Pain, Shanghai, 202150, China

    Feng Jiang & Yong-Hua Ji

  3. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA

    Zhi-Yong Tan

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Zhou, G., Jiao, Y., Zhou, Y. et al. Up-Regulation of Akt and Nav1.8 in BmK I-Induced Pain. Neurosci. Bull. 34, 539–542 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-018-0222-x

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