The lumbar spinal cord glial cells actively modulate subcutaneous formalin induced hyperalgesia in the rat

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 442-450

  Qin, Ming ^a   Wang, Jing Jie ^a   Cao, Rong ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Duan, Li ^a   Gao, Bei ^a   Xiong, Ying Fei ^a   Chen, Liang Wei ^a   Rao, Zhi Ren ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Formalin; Glial cell; Glial neuronal interaction; Hyperalgesia; Neuron; Rat

Indexed keywords

CARBENOXOLONE; FLUOROCITRIC ACID; FORMALDEHYDE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAP JUNCTION; GLIA CELL; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBENOXOLONE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CITRATES; CONNEXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAP JUNCTIONS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NOCICEPTORS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 33745005034     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2006.04.017     Document Type: Article

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