Increases in the concentration of brain derived neurotrophic factor in the lumbar spinal dorsal horn are associated with pain behavior following chronic constriction injury in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 319, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 137-140

  Miletic, Gordana ^a   Miletic, Vjekoslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay; Inflammation; Neurotrophic factors; Nociception; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HYPERALGESIA; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE LIGATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; HEAT; HYPERALGESIA; LIGATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037154680     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02576-9     Document Type: Article

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