Postnatal developmental changes in Sprague-Dawley rats in the model of neuropathic pain 'spare nerve injury'
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ABSTRACT: Neuropathic pain is an apparently spontaneous experience triggered by abnormal physiology of the peripheral or central nervous system, which evolves with time. Neuropathic pain arising from peripheral nerve injury is characterized by a combination of spontaneous pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia. There is no evidence of this type of pain in human infants or rat pups; brachial plexus avulsion, which causes intense neuropathic pain in adults, is not painful when the injury is sustained at birth. Since infants are capable of nociception from before birth and display both acute and chronic inflammatory pain behaviour from an early neonatal age, it appears that the mechanisms underlying neuropathic pain are differentially regulated over a prolonged postnatal period. We used microarrays to detail the global programme of gene expression underlying the differences in nerve injury between along the postnatal development and identified distinct classes of regulated genes during the injury
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
PROVIDER: GSE15041 | GEO | 2009/12/18
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA114807
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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