Synapse involvement of the dorsal horn in experimental lumbar nerve root compression: A light and electron microscopic study

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 716-723

  Kobayashi, Shigeru ^a   Uchida, Kenzo ^a   Kokubo, Yasuo ^a   Takeno, Kenichi ^a   Yayama, Takafumi ^a   Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Nakajima, Hideaki ^a   Nomura, Eiki ^b   Mwaka, Erisa ^a   Baba, Hisatoshi ^a  

^a University of Fukui   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Compression; Lumbar lesion; Nerve root; Radiculopathy; Spinal cord; Synapse pathology

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; EVANS BLUE; SOMATOSTATIN; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AXOPLASM FLOW; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; DOG; EDEMA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER DEGENERATION; NERVE ROOT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL ROOT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ANTERIOR HORN CELLS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; IMMUNOENZYME TECHNIQUES; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; RADICULOPATHY; RETROGRADE DEGENERATION; SOMATOSTATIN; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 41749113557     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e318169500e     Document Type: Article

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