Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-28-2009
Publication Title
Molecular Pain
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Cannabinoid receptor type 2 (CBR2) inhibits microglial reactivity through a molecular mechanism yet to be elucidated. We hypothesized that CBR2 activation induces an anti-inflammatory phenotype in microglia by inhibiting extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) pathway, via mitogen-activated protein kinase-phosphatase (MKP) induction. MKPs regulate mitogen activated protein kinases, but their role in the modulation of microglial phenotype is not fully understood.
DOI
10.1186/1744-8069-5-25
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Romero-Sandoval, Edgar A.; Horvath, Ryan; Landry, Russell P.; and DeLeo, Joyce A., "Cannabinoid Receptor Type 2 Activation Induces a Microglial Anti-Inflammatory Phenotype and Reduces Migration via MKP Induction and ERK Dephosphorylation" (2009). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1189.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1189