Differential contributions of A- and C-nociceptors to primary and secondary inflammatory hypersensitivity in the rat

Pain

Volumn 156, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1074-1083

  Hsieh, Meng Tzu ^a   Donaldson, Lucy F ^a,b   Lumb, Bridget M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A nociceptor; Arthritis; C fos; Hyperalgesia; Nociception; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOS; FREUND ADJUVANT; IMMUNOLOGICAL ADJUVANT; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL COUNTING; HEAT; HIND PAW; HYPERALGESIA; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFLAMMATION; KNEE ARTHRITIS; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SENSITIZATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CLASSIFICATION; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; MYELINATED NERVE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 85013381990     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000151     Document Type: Article

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