C-fos can be induced in the neonatal rat spinal cord by both noxious and innocuous peripheral stimulation

Pain

Volumn 68, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 301-306

  Jennings, Ernest ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A fibre; C fibre; neonate; pain; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE FIBER C; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0030443324     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03194-6     Document Type: Article

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