Impaired Excitatory Drive to Spinal Gabaergic Neurons of Neuropathic Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Leitner, Jörg ^a   Westerholz, Sören ^b   Heinke, Bernhard ^a   Forsthuber, Liesbeth ^a   Wunderbaldinger, Gabriele ^a   Jäger, Tino ^a   Gruber Schoffnegger, Doris ^a   Braun, Katharina ^b   Sandkühler, Jürgen ^a  

^a Medical University of Vienna   (Austria)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCIUM ION; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; ENDOCANNABINOID; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; NITRIC OXIDE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DORSAL ROOT; EVOKED SPINAL CORD RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROPATHY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR MODULATORS; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MICE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURALGIA; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1;

EID: 84882977798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073370     Document Type: Article

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