Stat3 Inhibition Attenuates Mechanical Allodynia through Transcriptional Regulation of Chemokine Expression in Spinal Astrocytes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Xiaodong ^a   Tian, Yuanyuan ^a   Lu, Na ^a   Gin, Tony ^a   Cheng, Christopher H K ^a   Chan, Matthew T V ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITHELIAL DERIVED NEUTROPHIL ACTIVATING FACTOR 78; FRACTALKINE; GAMMA INTERFERON INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 3ALPHA; STAT3 PROTEIN; TISSUE INHIBITOR OF METALLOPROTEINASE 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL COUNT; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOPLASM; DOWN REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN TARGETING; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CHEMOKINES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERALGESIA; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884891268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0075804     Document Type: Article

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