Increased brain-derived neurotrophic factor immunoreactivity in rat dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord following peripheral inflammation

Brain Research

Volumn 764, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 269-272

  Cho, Hee Jung ^a   Kim, Jeong Ki ^a   Zhou, Xin Fu ^b   Rush, Robert A ^b  

^a Kyungpook National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Dorsal root ganglion; Immunohistochem istry; Nerve growth factor; Pain; Peripheral inflammation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030805982     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00597-0     Document Type: Article

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