Nociceptive responses and spinal plastic changes of afferent C-fibers in three neuropathic pain models induced by sciatic nerve injury in the rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 84-95

  Casals Díaz, Laura ^a,b   Vivó, Meritxell ^a,b   Navarro, Xavier ^a,b  

^a Institute of Neuroscience   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

Axonal regeneration; Nerve injury; Neuropathic pain; Nociception; Sensory afferents; Spinal reflexes

Indexed keywords

SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENERVATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; LECTINS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SCIATICA; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANCE P;

EID: 64249119331     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2009.01.014     Document Type: Article

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