Vascular endothelial growth factor and spinal cord injury pain

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1793-1803

  Nesic, Olivera ^a   Sundberg, Laura M ^b   Herrera, Juan J ^b   Mokkapati, Venkata U L ^a   Lee, Julieann ^a   Narayana, Ponnada A ^b  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

microarray analysis; myelinated axon sprouting; neuropathic pain; rat spinal cord injury; vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; NEUROFILAMENT H PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT L PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN 165; VASCULOTROPIN 188; VASCULOTROPIN ANTIBODY;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 77958177267     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2010.1351     Document Type: Article

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