Dissociation of spinal microglia morphological activation and peripheral inflammation in inflammatory pain models

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 40-48

  Lin, Ting ^a   Li, Kai ^a   Zhang, Fei Yu ^a   Zhang, Zhen Kang ^a   Light, Alan R ^b   Fu, Kai Yuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyclooxygenase; Formalin; Inflammation; Microglia; OX 42; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; FREUND ADJUVANT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MICROGLIA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD11B; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROGLIA; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36749079838     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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