Dorsal horn synaptosomal content of aspartate, glutamate, glycine and GABA are differentially altered following chronic constriction injury to the rat sciatic nerve

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 323, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 171-174

  Somers, David L ^a   Clemente, F Richard ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspartate; Gamma aminobutyric acid; Glutamate; Glycine; Neuropathy; Pain

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINO ACID; ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

AGE; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TISSUE LEVEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; CAUSALGIA; DOWN-REGULATION; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCINE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOMES; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037012780     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00157-X     Document Type: Article

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