Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 54, Issue 12 , Pages 1143-1150 , December 2009

Involvement of medullary dorsal horn glial cell activation in mediation of masseter mechanical allodynia induced by experimental tooth movement

  • Xiao-Dong Liu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oral Anatomy & Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, 145 West Changle Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Jing-Jie Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Tangdu Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, PR China
    • These authors contributed equally to this work.
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  • Lei Sun

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oral Anatomy & Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, 145 West Changle Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
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  • Liang-Wei Chen

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Neurosciences, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, PR China
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  • Zhi-Ren Rao

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Neurosciences, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, PR China
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  • Li Duan

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Neurosciences, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, PR China
    • ,
  • Rong Cao

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Neurosciences, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, PR China
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  • Mei-Qing Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oral Anatomy & Physiology and TMD, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, 145 West Changle Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710032, PR China
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +86 29 84776144; fax: +86 29 83286858.

,Accepted 26 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2009.09.006

Archives of Oral Biology
Volume 54, Issue 12 , Pages 1143-1150 , December 2009

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