Deafferentation pain resulting from cervical posterior rhizotomy is alleviated by chromaffin cell transplants into the rat spinal subarachnoid space

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 919-924

  Guenot, Marc ^a   Lee, Jeung Woon ^a   Nasirinezhad, Farinaz ^a   Sagen, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal medulla; Brachial plexus avulsion; Chromaffin cells; Deafferentation pain; Neuropathic pain; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL MEDULLA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION PAIN; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; DORSAL ROOT; MALE; MUSCLE GRAFT; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSPLANTATION; ANALGESIA; CANCER PAIN; DORSAL ROOT ENTRY ZONE; EPIDURAL SPACE; HYPERALGESIA; LAMINECTOMY; MORBIDITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOTE; PAIN; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL CORD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; CAUSALGIA; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL CORD; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRANSPLANTS;

EID: 34247595418     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000255435.29118.3D     Document Type: Article

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