Chronic at-level thermal hyperalgesia following rat cervical contusion spinal cord injury is accompanied by neuronal and astrocyte activation and loss of the astrocyte glutamate transporter, GLT1, in superficial dorsal horn
Keywords: SCI, spinal cord injury; CNS, central nervous system; PNS, peripheral nervous system; STT, spinothalamic tract; GLT1, glutamate transporter-1; NMDAR, N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor; AMPA, α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor; GABA,