Transplant restoration of spinal cord inhibitory controls ameliorates neuropathic itch

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 3612-3616

  Braz, Joao M ^a   Juarez Salinas, Dina ^a   Ross, Sarah E ^b   Basbaum, Allan I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL PRURITUS; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROPATHIC PRURITUS; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SCRATCHING; SKIN DEFECT; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEURAL STEM CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; TRANSPLANTATION;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BASIC HELIX LOOP HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; BHLHE22 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMALS; BASIC HELIX-LOOP-HELIX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GABAERGIC NEURONS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURAL STEM CELLS; PRURITUS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84905441131     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI75214     Document Type: Article

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