Dynamic of migration of HSV-1 from a medullary pronociceptive centre: Antinociception by overexpression of the preproenkephalin transgene

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 2075-2083

  Martins, I ^a,b   Pinto, M ^a,b   Wilson, S P ^c   Lima, D ^a,b   Tavares, I ^a,b  

^a University of Porto   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Descending modulation; Dorsal reticular nucleus; Pain control system; Pronociception; Rat

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; PREPROENKEPHALIN; VIRUS VECTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE THERAPY; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HUMAN CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MEDULLARY DORSAL RETICULAR NUCLEUS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TRANSGENE; VIRAL GENE THERAPY;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; BRAIN; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; ENKEPHALINS; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC VECTORS; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; HUMANS; LAC OPERON; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; RATS; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; TRANSGENES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55949120169     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06492.x     Document Type: Article

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