Incipient cauda equina syndrome as a model of somatovisceral pain in dogs: Spinal cord structures involved as revealed by the expression of c-fos and NADPH diaphorase activity

Neuroscience

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 543-557

  Orendacova J ^a   Marsala M ^b   Sulla I ^c   Kafka, J ^c   Jalč, P ^a   Cizkova D ^a   Taira, Y ^d   Marsala J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Med Faculty of Safarik University   (Slovakia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cauda equina constrictions; Co localization Fos LI+NADPHd; Dog; Fos LI; NADPHd

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CAUDA EQUINA; CAUDA EQUINA SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; FEMALE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 0345476931     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(99)00429-7     Document Type: Article

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