Co-localization of endomorphin-2 and substance P in primary afferent nociceptors and effects of injury: A light and electron microscopic study in the rat

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1789-1799

  Nydahl, Katarina Sanderson ^a   Skinner, Kate ^a   Julius, David ^a   Basbaum, Allan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoreceptors; Dorsal root ganglion; Immunocytochemistry; Opioid peptides; Pain; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ENDOMORPHIN 2; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; PREPROTACHYKININ; SUBSTANCE P; VANILLOID RECEPTOR; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1;

AFFINITY LABELING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SIZE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE; GENE DELETION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CELL SIZE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GLYCOPROTEINS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEINS; LECTINS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OLIGOPEPTIDES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 1842633517     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03284.x     Document Type: Article

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