Partial peripheral nerve injury promotes a selective loss of GABAergic inhibition in the superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 6724-6731

  Moore, Kimberly A ^a,b   Kohno, Tatsuro ^a   Karchewski, Laurie A ^a   Scholz, Joachim ^a   Baba, Hiroshi ^a,c   Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CCI; Cell death; Disinhibition; GAD; Neuropathic pain; SNI

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EVOKED RESPONSE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0036703985     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-15-06724.2002     Document Type: Article

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