Peripheral axotomy induces only very limited sprouting of coarse myelinated afferents into inner lamina II of rat spinal cord

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 175-185

  Bao, Lan ^a   Wang, Hui Fredrik ^a,b   Cai, Hai Jiang ^a   Tong, Yong Guang ^a,b   Jin, Shan Xue ^a   Lu, Ying Jin ^a   Grant, Gunnar ^b   Hökfelt, Tomas ^b   Zhang, Xu ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglion; Neuropeptide Y; Neuropeptide Y receptor; Pain; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; GALANIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHOLERA TOXIN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 0036977050     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2002.02080.x     Document Type: Article

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