Differential effects of activity dependent treatments on axonal regeneration and neuropathic pain after peripheral nerve injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-167

  Cobianchi, Stefano ^a,b   Casals Diaz, Laura ^a,b   Jaramillo, Jessica ^a,b   Navarro, Xavier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Nerve regeneration; Neuropathic pain; Neurotrophins; Treadmill training

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLIAL CELL LINE DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR GENE; HYPERALGESIA; LATENT PERIOD; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE REINNERVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROTROPHIN 3 GENE; NEUROTROPHIN GENE; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD VENTRAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; THERAPY EFFECT; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURALGIA; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84871375242     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.11.023     Document Type: Article

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