Spatiotemporal characteristics of pain-associated neuronal activities in primary somatosensory cortex induced by peripheral persistent nociception

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 448, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 134-138

  Chang, Ying ^a   Yan, Lai Hong ^a   Zhang, Fu Kang ^a   Gong, Ke Rui ^a   Liu, Ming Gang ^a   Xiao, Yong ^b   Xie, Fang ^b   Fu, Han ^b   Chen, Jun ^a,b  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bee venom; c Fos; Immunohistochemistry; Neuronal activity; Persistent nociception; Primary somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

BEE VENOM; PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEE VENOMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HINDLIMB; MALE; NEURONS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 55549087514     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.08.090     Document Type: Article

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