Inflammation in the uterus induces phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase and substance P immunoreactivity in dorsal root ganglia neurons innervating both uterus and colon in rats

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2746-2752

  Li, Jichang ^a   Micevych, Paul ^b   McDonald, John ^a   Rapkin, Andrea ^b   Chaban, Victor ^b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colon; DRG; pERK; Substance P; Uterus

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; COLON; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS ALLERGY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; METRITIS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; UTERUS;

ANIMALS; COLON; ENZYME INDUCTION; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; NEURONS; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SUBSTANCE P; UTERUS;

EID: 57049189627     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21714     Document Type: Article

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