Amount of sympathetic sprouting in the dorsal root ganglia is not correlated to the level of sympathetic dependence of neuropathic pain in a rat model

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 245, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-24

  Kim, Hee Jin ^a   Na, Heung Sik ^a,b   Sung, Backil ^b,c   Hong, Seung Kil ^a,b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Sahmyook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Dorsal root ganglion; Hyperalgesia; Neuropathic pan; Peripheral nerve injury; Phentolamine; Sympathetically maintained pain

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHENTOLAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; TAIL; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0006543275     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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