Is sympathetic sprouting in the dorsal root ganglia responsible for the production of neuropathic pain in a rat model?

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-106

  Kim, Hee Jin ^a   Na, Heung Sik ^a,b   Sung, Backil ^b,c   Nam, Hyun Jung ^a   Chung, Yun Jae ^a   Hong, Seung Kil ^a,b  

^a Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Sahmyook University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Dorsal root ganglion; Neuropathic pain; Peripheral nerve injury; Sympathetically maintained pain; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; MALE; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION;

ANIMALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0033538539     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00435-8     Document Type: Article

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