Do central terminals of intact myelinated primary afferents sprout into the superficial dorsal horn of rat spinal cord after injury to a neighboring peripheral nerve?

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 474, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 427-437

  Shehab, Safa Aldeen S ^a   Spike, Rosemary C ^b   Todd, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Cholera toxin B subunit; IB4; Spinal cord; Sprouting; VIP

Indexed keywords

BANDEIRAEA SIMPLICIFOLIA ISOLECTIN B4; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; FEMORAL NERVE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 2642572705     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20147     Document Type: Article

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