GABAergic pathway in a rat model of chronic neuropathic pain: Modulation after intrathecal transplantation of a human neuronal cell line

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 111-120

  Vaysse, L ^a   Sol, J C ^a   Lazorthes, Y ^a   Courtade Saidi, M ^b   Eaton, M J ^c   Jozan, S ^a,b  

^a Laboratory of Approches expérimentales et Thé   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c Behavioral Medicine Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell transplant; GABA; GAD65; GAD67; HNT2 cell; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INTRATHECAL TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE CELL; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; NEURALGIA; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SCIATIC NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 78650309416     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2010.10.006     Document Type: Article

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