Mechanosensitivity of dorsal root ganglia and chronically injured axons: A physiological basis for the radicular pain of nerve root compression

Pain

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1977, Pages 25-41

  Howe, John F ^a   Loeser, John D ^a   Calvin, William H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAT; INJURY; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE FIBER; NERVE INJURY; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; SPINAL GANGLION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMAL; AXONS; CATS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; MECHANORECEPTORS; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NERVE FIBERS; PAIN; RABBITS; SCIATICA; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURAL NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0017360099     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(77)90033-1     Document Type: Article

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