Sympathetic sprouting and changes in nociceptive sensory innervation in the glabrous skin of the rat hind paw following partial peripheral nerve injury

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 495, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 679-690

  Yen, Laurene D ^a   Bennett, Gary J ^a,b   Ribeiro Da Silva, Alfredo ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

CGRP; Chronic constriction injury; Confocal microscopy; Dopamine hydroxylase; Ectopic fibers; Immunocytochemistry; Rat

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; POLYCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMIS; GLABROUS SKIN; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DERMIS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FOOT; GROWTH CONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIGATION; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN, INTRACTABLE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, SENSORY; REFLEX SYMPATHETIC DYSTROPHY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 33644965593     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20899     Document Type: Article

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