Evidence for cellular injury in the midbrain of rats following chronic constriction injury of the sciatic nerve

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 158-169

  Mor, David ^a   Bembrick, Alison L ^a   Austin, Paul J ^a   Keay, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Bax Bcl 2; Heat shock protein 60; Inducible nitric oxide synthase; Mesencephalic nucleus of the trigeminal; Neuropathic pain; Periaqueductal grey

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 60; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASE; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MESENCEPHALIC TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; CASPASE 3; CHAPERONIN 60; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLIOSIS; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAP KINASE KINASE 2; MESENCEPHALON; MOOD DISORDERS; NEUROGLIA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SLEEP DISORDERS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEI; VIMENTIN;

EID: 79952899764     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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