Myelinated afferents sprout into lamina II of L3-5 dorsal horn following chronic constriction nerve injury in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 818, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-290

  Nakamura, Shin ichiro ^a   Myers, Robert R ^a  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Chronic constriction injury; Neuropathic pain; Plasticity; Transganglionic axonal tracer

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; FEMALE; FOOT PAD; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033550724     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01291-8     Document Type: Article

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