Changes in galanin immunoreactivity in rat lumbosacral spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia after spinal cord injury

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 475, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 590-603

  Zvarova, K ^a   Murray, E ^a   Vizzard, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Lower urinary tract; Micturition; Neuropeptides; NGF

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GALANIN; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MICTURITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SPINAL GANGLION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GALANIN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; URINARY BLADDER; URINATION;

EID: 3042815957     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20195     Document Type: Article

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