Unmyelinated primary afferents from adjacent spinal nerves intermingle in the spinal dorsal horn: A possible mechanism contributing to neuropathic pain

Brain Research

Volumn 1208, Issue , 2008, Pages 111-119

  Shehab, Safa A S ^a   Al Marashda, Khadija ^a   Al Zahmi, Amal ^a   Abdul Kareem, Afaf ^a   Al Sultan, Mahmood A H ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Anatomical circuitry; Mechanism; Neuropathic pain; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARMORACIA RUSTICANA; RATTUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; BANDEIRAEA SIMPLICIFOLIA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CHOLERA TOXIN; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; LIGATION; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; WHEAT GERM AGGLUTININ-HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE CONJUGATE;

EID: 43049117876     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.02.089     Document Type: Article

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