A time course analysis of the changes in neuropeptide Y immunoreactivity in the rat cuneate nucleus following median nerve transection

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 369-377

  Tsai, Yi Ju ^a   Leong, Sok Man ^b   Day, An Shiou ^c   Wen, Chen Yuan ^a   Shieh, Jeng Yung ^a   Lue, June Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KIANG WU NURSING COLLEGE OF MACAU   (Macao)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Calcitonin gene related peptide; Galanin; Median nerve transection injury; Neuropeptide Y; Substance P; Vasoactive intestinal peptide

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; DENDRITE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SYNAPSE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BRAIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 1642294083     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2003.12.003     Document Type: Article

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