Effects of pre-emptive drug treatment on astrocyte activation in the cuneate nucleus following rat median nerve injury

Pain

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 158-166

  Chen, Jiann Jy ^a   Lue, June Horng ^b   Lin, Lung Huang ^c   Huang, Chun Ta ^d   Chiang, Rayleigh Ping Ying ^e,f   Chen, Chih Li ^f   Tsai, Yi Ju ^f  

^a TAO YUAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CATHAY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^f FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Lidocaine; Median nerve; MK 801; Neuropathic pain; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DIZOCILPINE; FLUOROCITRIC ACID; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LIDOCAINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CITRATES; CLONIDINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERALGESIA; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MEDIAN NEUROPATHY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; TETRODOTOXIN; TIME FACTORS; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 72449131812     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.11.004     Document Type: Article

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