Transplants of neuronal cells bioengineered to synthesize GABA alleviate chronic neuropathic pain

Cell Transplantation

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-101

  Eaton, M J ^a,b   Plunkett, J A ^a   Martinez, M A ^a   Lopez, T ^a   Karmally, S ^a   Cejas, P ^a   Whittemore, S R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic constriction injury; GABA; Neural cell lines; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; VIRUS LARGE T ANTIGEN;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BRAIN STEM; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERALGESIA; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PIA MATER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032867326     PISSN: 09636897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096368979900800102     Document Type: Article

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