Sympathetic sprouting near sensory neurons after nerve injury occurs preferentially on spontaneously active cells and is reduced by early nerve block

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 492-502

  Xie, Wenrui ^a   Strong, Judith Ann ^a   Li, Huiqing ^a   Zhang, Jun Ming ^a  

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

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE INJURY; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVE BLOCK; AXOTOMY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GROWTH CONES; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURALGIA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846426870     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00899.2006     Document Type: Article

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