Local and systemic cytokine expression in patients with postherpetic neuralgia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Üçeyler, Nurcan ^a   Valet, Michael ^b   Kafke, Waldemar ^a   Tölle, Thomas R ^b   Sommer, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; CYTOKINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPESTHESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRAEPIDERMAL NERVE FIBER DENSITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGICAL AND SENSORIAL PROCEDURES; PAIN; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PUNCH BIOPSY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN NERVE; VERY ELDERLY; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENETICS; HERPES ZOSTER; IMMUNOLOGY; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; SKIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURALGIA, POSTHERPETIC; PAIN; SKIN;

EID: 84940234068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105269     Document Type: Article

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