Intermittent noxious stimulation following spinal cord contusion injury impairs locomotor recovery and reduces spinal brain-derived neurotrophic factor-tropomyosin-receptor kinase signaling in adult rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 199, Issue , 2011, Pages 86-102

  Garraway, S M ^a   Turtle, J D ^a   Huie, J R ^a,b   Lee, K H ^a   Hook, M A ^a   Woller, S A ^a   Grau, J W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Functional recovery; Nociceptive stimulation; Spinal cord injury; Spinal plasticity

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE AND BRESNAHAN SCALE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR, TRKB; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 83055186552     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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