Chronic pain after clip-compression injury of the rat spinal cord

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 178, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-48

  Bruce, Jamie C ^a   Oatway, Mark A ^a   Weaver, Lynne C ^a  

^a ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Afferent fibers; Allodynia; Hyperalgesia; Plasticity; Serotonin; Spinal cord injury; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC PAIN; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE TRACT; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

EID: 0036444138     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.2002.8026     Document Type: Article

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