Spinal glia and proinflammatory cytokines mediate mirror-image neuropathic pain in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1026-1040

  Milligan, Erin D ^a   Twining, Carin ^a   Chacur, Marucia ^b   Biedenkapp, Joseph ^a   O'Connor, Kevin ^a   Poole, Stephen ^c   Tracey, Kevin ^d   Martin, David ^e   Maier, Steven F ^a   Watkins, Linda R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STANDARDS AND CONTROL   (United Kingdom)

^d Northwell Health Patient Safety Institute Emergency Medical Institute   (United States)

^e AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Astrocyte; Interleukin 1; Interleukin 6; Microglia; P38 MAP kinase; Tumor necrosis factor

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; METABOLIC INHIBITION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0037320840     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-03-01026.2003     Document Type: Article

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