Pre-treatment with lidocaine suppresses ectopic discharges and attenuates neuropeptide Y and c-Fos expressions in the rat cuneate nucleus following median nerve transection

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-56

  Lin, Chi Te ^a   Wang, Hsin Ying ^a   Tsai, Yi Ju ^b   Huang, Chun Ta ^c   Chen, Seu Hwa ^a,d   Lue, June Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

c Fos; Cuneate nucleus; Lidocaine; Median nerve; NPY; Pre emptive; Transection

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTEIN C FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SENSITIZATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 67549109116     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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