Increased c-fos immunoreactivity in the spinal cord and brain following spinal cord stimulation is frequency-dependent

Brain Research

Volumn 1259, Issue , 2009, Pages 40-50

  Maeda, Yumi ^a   Ikeuchi, Masahiko ^a,b   Wacnik, Paul ^c   Sluka, Kathleen A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; Neuropathic pain; Spared nerve injury (SNI); Spinal cord stimulation (SCS)

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 61849130625     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.12.060     Document Type: Article

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