Loss of GABA-immunoreactivity in the spinal dorsal horn of rats with peripheral nerve injury and promotion of recovery by adrenal medullary grafts

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 845-858

  Ibuki, T ^a,b   Hama, A T ^a,c   Wang, X T ^a   Pappas, G D ^a   Sagen, J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Cytotherapeutics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

chromaffin cells; chronic pain; inhibitory neurons; neural transplants; nociception; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0030580562     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00341-7     Document Type: Article

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