Thoracic visceral inputs use upper cervical segments to inhibit lumbar spinal neurons in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 709, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 337-342

  Zhang, Jianhua ^a   Chandler, Margaret J ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary sympathetic afferent; Inhibition; Nociception; Spinal transection; Spinothalamic tract neuron; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030050696     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(95)01441-1     Document Type: Article

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