Galanin knockout mice reveal nociceptive deficits following peripheral nerve injury

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 793-802

  Kerr, Bradley J ^a   Cafferty, William B J ^a   Gupta, Yuri K ^a   Bacon, Andrea ^b   Wynick, David ^b   McMahon, Stephen B ^a   Thompson, Stephen W N ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hyperalgesia; Knockout; Nociception; Sensory neuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTEIN KINASE C;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GALANIN; HEAT; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0034024262     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00967.x     Document Type: Article

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