Altered sodium channel expression in second-order spinal sensory neurons contributes to pain after peripheral nerve injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 4832-4839

  Hains, Bryan C ^b   Saab, Carl Y ^b   Klein, Joshua P ^b   Craner, Matthew J ^b   Waxman, Stephen G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Ion channel; Neuropathy; Pain; Sensitization; Wide dynamic range

Indexed keywords

ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LIGATION; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SODIUM CHANNELS; SPINAL CORD; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 2442651551     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0300-04.2004     Document Type: Article

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