Synaptic plasticity in the adult spinal dorsal horn: The appearance of new functional connections following peripheral nerve regeneration

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 468-479

  Koerber, H Richard ^a   Mirnics, Karoly ^a   Lawson, Jeffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cat; Collateral sprouting; Regeneration; Spinal cord; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN DERIVATIVE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; NEUROBIOTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; INJECTION; MALE; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NEEDLE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SKIN; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BIOTIN; CATS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; REACTION TIME; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33746314281     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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