Metaplasticity and behavior: How training and inflammation affect plastic potential within the spinal cord and recovery after injury

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Grau, James W ^a   Russell Huie, J ^b   Lee, Kuan H ^a   Hoy, Kevin C ^c   Huang, Yung Jen ^a   Turtle, Joel D ^a   Strain, Misty M ^a   Baumbauer, Kyle M ^d   Miranda, Rajesh M ^e   Hook, Michelle A ^e   Ferguson, Adam R ^b   Garraway, Sandra M ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^e TEXAS A M COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; Inflammation; Learning; Nociception; Opioid; Plasticity; Spinal cord injury; TNF

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; COTRANSPORTER; CYTOKINE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN 1A RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR;

ALLODYNIA; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; DOWN REGULATION; GLIA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TRAINING; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; CONVALESCENCE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEARNING; LEARNING DISABILITIES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84908213898     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00100     Document Type: Review

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