STAT3-dependent reactive astrogliosis in the spinal dorsal horn underlies chronic itch

Nature Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 927-931

  Shiratori Hayashi, Miho ^a   Koga, Keisuke ^a   Tozaki Saitoh, Hidetoshi ^a   Kohro, Yuta ^a   Toyonaga, Honami ^a   Yamaguchi, Chiharu ^a   Hasegawa, Ayumi ^a   Nakahara, Takeshi ^a   Hachisuka, Junichi ^a   Akira, Shizuo ^b,c   Okano, Hideyuki ^d   Furue, Masutaka ^a   Inoue, Kazuhide ^a   Tsuda, Makoto ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASTRIN RELEASING PEPTIDE; NEUTROPHIL GELATINASE ASSOCIATED LIPOCALIN; STAT3 PROTEIN; ACUTE PHASE PROTEIN; LCN2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; LIPOCALIN; ONCOPROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC ITCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSESSMENT; DISEASE COURSE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCRATCHING; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

MUS;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; GASTRIN-RELEASING PEPTIDE; LIPOCALINS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PRURITUS; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

EID: 84938769565     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3912     Document Type: Article

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