Ketamine suppresses c-fos expression in dorsal horn neurons after acute constrictive sciatic nerve injury in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 269, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 165-168

  Huang, Wen ^a   Simpson Jr , Richard K ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

C fos; Dorsal horn; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; KETAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE LIGATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TIBIAL NERVE;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; HALOTHANE; HINDLIMB; KETAMINE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE CRUSH; NEURALGIA; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033575424     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00344-4     Document Type: Article

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