Remodelling of spared proprioceptive circuit involving a small number of neurons supports functional recovery

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Hollis, Edmund R ^a   Ishiko, Nao ^a   Pessian, Maysam ^a   Tolentino, Kristine ^a   Lee Kubli, Corinne A ^b   Calcutt, Nigel A ^c   Zou, Yimin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRIZZLED PROTEIN; NEUROKININ; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

ADAPTATION; BRAIN; INJURY; LESION; LIMB; MODELING; NEUROLOGY;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CONDITIONING; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; GRACILE NUCLEUS; HINDLIMB; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PROPRIOCEPTION; PROPRIOCEPTIVE FEEDBACK; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; ROTAROD TEST; SCIATIC NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS; TISSUE LEVEL; UPREGULATION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; ANIMAL; FISCHER 344 RAT; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HINDLIMB; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84923089549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7079     Document Type: Article

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