Heat-evoked vasodilatation in human hairy skin: Axon reflexes due to low-level activity of nociceptive afferents

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 497, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 837-848

  Magerl, Walter ^a   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER C; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; THERMAL EXPOSURE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0030451255     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.1996.sp021814     Document Type: Article

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