Physiological properties of enkephalin-containing neurons in the spinal dorsal horn visualized by expression of green fluorescent protein in BAC transgenic mice

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Fukushima, Teruyuki ^a   Tsuda, Masayuki ^a   Kofuji, Takefumi ^b   Hori, Yuuichi ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIC AMP; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; ENKEPHALIN; FORSKOLIN; GENOMIC DNA; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; PREPROENKEPHALIN; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNT; CELL FUNCTION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAY MATTER; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE LIGATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PENK1 GENE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; ENKEPHALINS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79955664915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-12-36     Document Type: Article

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