Highly localized interactions between sensory neurons and sprouting sympathetic fibers observed in a transgenic tyrosine hydroxylase reporter mouse

Molecular Pain

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Xie, Wenrui ^a   Strong, Judith A ^a   Mao, Juxian ^a   Zhang, Jun Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ectopic activity; Spinal nerve ligation; Spontaneous activity; Sympathetic sprouting

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE A; SUBSTANCE P; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NERVOUS TISSUE; NEUROPATHY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY GANGLION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL NERVE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; ADRENERGIC NERVE; ANIMAL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; INJURY; LIGATION; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; SENSORY RECEPTOR; SPINAL GANGLION; TIME;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CELL COMMUNICATION; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GENES, REPORTER; LIGATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 79960681018     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-7-53     Document Type: Article

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