Plasticity in the synaptic number associated with neuropathic pain in the rat spinal dorsal horn: A stereological study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 486, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 24-28

  Peng, Bin ^a,b   Lin, Jing Yan ^b   Shang, Yi ^b   Yang, Zheng Wei ^b   Wang, Ya Ping ^a  

^a CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF NORTH SICHUAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic constriction injury (CCI); Neuropathic pain; Plasticity; Rat; Stereology; Synapse

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ARTICLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STEREOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NEURALGIA; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SPINAL DISEASES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 77957897101     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.09.037     Document Type: Article

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