Pain behaviors after spinal cord contusion injury in two commonly used mouse strains

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 206, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 240-247

  Kerr, Bradley J ^a   David, Samuel ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Contusion injury; PKC

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C GAMMA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GROOMING; HINDLIMB; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SENSORY NERVE; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GROOMING; HINDLIMB; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN KINASE C; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 34447631508     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.04.014     Document Type: Article

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