Sprouting of colonic afferent central terminals and increased spinal mitogen-activated protein kinase expression in a mouse model of chronic visceral hypersensitivity

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2241-2255

  Harrington, Andrea M ^a,b   Brierley, Stuart M ^a,b   Isaacs, Nicole ^a,b   Hughes, Patrick A ^a,b   Castro, Joel ^a,b   Blackshaw, L Ashley ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Wingate Institute   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonic afferent fibers; Colonic inflammation; Immunohistochemistry; Mouse and spinal cord; Neuroanatomical tracing

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CALBINDIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; VISCERAL PAIN;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEIN, VITAMIN D-DEPENDENT; CHOLERA TOXIN; COLON; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84859730802     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23042     Document Type: Article

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