The contribution of capsaicin-sensitive afferents to the dorsal root ganglion sprouting of sympathetic axons after peripheral nerve injury in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 253, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 143-146

  Abbadie, Catherine ^a,b   Basbaum, Allan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

C Fiber; Dorsal root ganglion; Neuropathic pain; Noradrenaline; Sprouting; Sympathetics

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; AXOTOMY; CAPSAICIN; CELL SIZE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0032480271     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00642-9     Document Type: Article

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