Downregulation of tetrodotoxin-resistant sodium currents and upregulation of a rapidly repriming tetrodotoxin-sensitive sodium current in small spinal sensory neurons after nerve injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 3503-3514

  Cummins, Theodore R ^b   Waxman, Stephen G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

axotomy; chronic pain; dorsal root ganglion; excitability; sodium channel; sodium current

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION;

EID: 0030997916     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-10-03503.1997     Document Type: Article

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