Selective increase of tumour necrosis factor-alpha in injured and spared myelinated primary afferents after chronic constrictive injury of rat sciatic nerve

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 791-804

  Schäfers, Maria ^a,b   Geis, Christian ^a   Svensson, Camilla I ^b   Luo, Z David ^b   Sommer, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic constrictive injury; IL 10; Neuropeptides; Retrograde tracers; TNF; VR1

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; FLUOROGOLD; INTERLEUKIN 10; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MUSCLE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL SIZE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; ECTODYSPLASINS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-10; LECTINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUSCLES; NERVE CRUSH; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RECEPTOR, TRKA; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RECEPTORS, DRUG; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SKIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA; UBIQUITIN THIOLESTERASE;

EID: 0037294433     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02504.x     Document Type: Article

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