Phenotyping of sensory and sympathetic ganglion neurons of a galanin-overexpressing mouse-Possible implications for pain processing

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 243-262

  Brumovsky, Pablo ^a,b   Hygge Blakeman, Karin ^a   Villar, Marcelo J ^b   Watanabe, Masahiko ^c   Wiesenfeld Hallin, Zsuzsanna ^a   Hökfelt, Tomas ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dorsal root ganglion; Ectopic expression; Nerve injury; Neuropeptide; Transgenic mouse

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; GALANIN; LECTIN; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LECTIN BINDING; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE PLEXUS; NEUROPIL; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY GANGLION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKIN; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SWEAT GLAND; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; GALANIN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOREPINEPHRINE; PAIN; PHENOTYPE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, SENSORY; RHIZOTOMY; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SKIN; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 33646368116     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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