Lack of Evidence for Sprouting of Aβ Afferents into the Superficial Laminas of the Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn after Nerve Section

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 29, 2003, Pages 9491-9499

  Hughes, David I ^a   Scott, Dugald T ^a   Todd, Andrew J ^a   Riddell, John S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Intra axonal injection; Low threshold mechanoreceptor; Myelinated afferent; Nerve injury; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; DEXTRAN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAIR FOLLICLE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SUPERFICIAL LAMINA; ANIMAL; BIOTINYLATION; ELECTRODE; INNERVATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; METABOLISM; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOTINYLATION; DEXTRANS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SKIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0142151031     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-29-09491.2003     Document Type: Article

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