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Nociceptive phenotype alterations of dorsal root ganglia neurons innervating the subchondral bone in osteoarthritic rat knee joints.
Osteoarthritis and cartilage - 1 Sept 2016
Aso K, Izumi M, Sugimura N, Okanoue Y, Ushida T, Ikeuchi M
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OBJECTIVE: Subchondral bone plays a role in generating knee joint pain in osteoarthritis (OA). The objective of this study was to clarify nociceptive phenotype alterations of subchondral bone afferents of the distal femur in mono-iodoacetate (MIA)-induced OA rats. METHODS: OA was induced by intra-articular injection of MIA in rats. Two different retrograde tracers were separately injected into the knee joint...
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