Low dimensional attractors in discharges of sensory neurons of the rat spinal dorsal horn are maintained by supraspinal descending systems

Neuroscience

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 191-200

  Debus, S ^a   Sandkuhler J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Correlation dimension; Discharge pattern; Nociception; Phase space; Point process; Spinalization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ANIMAL; GANGLIA, SENSORY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029655554     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(95)00344-I     Document Type: Article

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