Effect of colchicine on neuropeptide Y expression in rat dorsal root ganglia and spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-48

  Cougnon Aptel, Nathalie ^a   Whiteside, Garth T ^a   Munglani, Rajesh ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Colchicine; Dorsal root ganglia; Hyperalgesia; Mononeuropathy; Neuropeptide Y; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; MONONEUROPATHY; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; COLCHICINE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HYPERALGESIA; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033521628     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00900-8     Document Type: Article

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