Intact sciatic myelinated primary afferent terminals collaterally sprout in the adult rat dorsal horn following section of a neighbouring peripheral nerve

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 380, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-104

  Doubell, T P ^a   Mannion, R J ^a   Woolf, C J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

nerve injury; plasticity; sensory neurons; somatotopy; spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; MYELINATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; NERVE ENDINGS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0030968311     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19970331)380:1<95::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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