C-fos expression in the spinal cord of rats exhibiting allodynia following contusive spinal cord injury

Brain Research

Volumn 851, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 281-286

  Siddall, Philip J ^a   Xu, Cao Ling ^a   Floyd, Nicole ^b   Keay, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hypersensitivity; Immediate early gene; Immunohistochemistry; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; NEURALGIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHORT SURVEY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0033385643     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02173-3     Document Type: Article

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