Nociceptive responses to high and low rates of noxious cutaneous heating are mediated by different nociceptors in the rat: Electrophysiological evidence

Pain

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-150

  Yeomans, David C ^a   Proudfit, Herbert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Hairy skin; Nociception; Primary afferent; Skin temperature

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEAT; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HEAT; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030276412     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03177-6     Document Type: Article

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