Bilateral elevation of interleukin-6 protein and mRNA in both lumbar and cervical dorsal root ganglia following unilateral chronic compression injury of the sciatic nerve

Journal of Neuroinflammation

Volumn 10, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dubový, Petr ^a   Brázda, Václav ^a,b   Klusáková, Ilona ^a   Hradilová Svíženská, Ivana ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Conditioning; Contralateral reaction; Cytokines; Neuroinflammation; Remote ganglia; Unilateral nerve injury

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERLEUKIN 6 GENE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE INJURY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPINAL GANGLION; THERMAL ANALYSIS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 84876797332     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17422094     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-2094-10-55     Document Type: Article

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