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Excitability of Aβ sensory neurons is altered in an animal model of peripheral neuropathy

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Title
Excitability of Aβ sensory neurons is altered in an animal model of peripheral neuropathy
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BMC Neuroscience, January 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2202-13-15
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Yong Fang Zhu, James L Henry

Abstract

Causes of neuropathic pain following nerve injury remain unclear, limiting the development of mechanism-based therapeutic approaches. Animal models have provided some directions, but little is known about the specific sensory neurons that undergo changes in such a way as to induce and maintain activation of sensory pain pathways. Our previous studies implicated changes in the Aβ, normally non-nociceptive neurons in activating spinal nociceptive neurons in a cuff-induced animal model of neuropathic pain and the present study was directed specifically at determining any change in excitability of these neurons. Thus, the present study aimed at recording intracellularly from Aβ-fiber dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons and determining excitability of the peripheral receptive field, of the cell body and of the dorsal roots.

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Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Portugal 1 1%
Unknown 65 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 17 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 19%
Student > Master 4 6%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Professor 3 4%
Other 14 21%
Unknown 13 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 16 24%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 12%
Neuroscience 7 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 6%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 16 24%
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