Sympathetic sprouting in the dorsal root ganglia of the injured peripheral nerve in a rat neuropathic pain model

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 376, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-252

  Chung, Kyungsoon ^a,b   Lee, Bae Hwan ^a   Yoon, Young Wook ^a   Chung, Jin Mo ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

causalgia; mechanical allodynia; peripheral nerve injury; sympathetically maintained pain; tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAUSALGIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; CAUSALGIA; COLD; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GANGLIONECTOMY; LIGATION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL NERVES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 10544244579     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19961209)376:2<241::AID-CNE6>3.3.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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