Excitability of spinal cord and gracile nucleus neurons in rats with chronically injured sciatic nerve examined by c-fos expression

Brain Research

Volumn 847, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 321-331

  Tokunaga, Atsushi ^a   Kondo, Eiji ^a   Fukuoka, Tetsuo ^a   Miki, Kenji ^a   Dai, Yi ^a   Tsujino, Hiroaki ^a   Noguchi, Koichi ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Baclofen; Dorsal column nucleus; Dorsal horn; Immediate early gene; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

6 CYANO 7 NITRO 2,3 QUINOXALINEDIONE; BACLOFEN; DIZOCILPINE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVE; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRACILE NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GABA AGONISTS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032745022     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02074-0     Document Type: Article

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