Unilateral nerve injury down-regulates mRNA for Na+ channel SCN10A bilaterally in rat dorsal root ganglia

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 162-165

  Oaklander, Anne Louise ^a   Belzberg, Allan J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

SNS; Dorsal root ganglion; Hyperalgesia; Nerve injury; Neuropathic pain; RT PCR; SCN10A; Voltage gated sodium channel

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; ION CHANNEL GATING; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SODIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0030731221     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(97)00239-8     Document Type: Article

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