Spinal c-fos expression associated with spontaneous biting in a mouse model of dry skin pruritus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 361, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 79-82

  Nojima, Hiroshi ^a   Cuellar, Jason M ^b   Simons, Christopher T ^b   Carstens, Mirela Iodi ^b   Carstens, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biting; Dry skin; Itch; Pruritus; Scratching; Superficial dorsal horn

Indexed keywords

ACETONE; ETHER; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACETONE; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ETHER, ETHYL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PRURITUS; SELF MUTILATION; SKIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 2342567045     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.12.013     Document Type: Article

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