Functional characterization of cutaneous mechanoreceptor properties in aged rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 171-174

  Reinke, Heinrich ^a,b   Dinse, Hubert R ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conduction velocity; Mechanical thresholds; N. plantaris; Rapid slow adapting fibers; Receptive fields; Somatosensory cortex; Synaptic transmission; Use dependent plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HINDLIMB; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

EID: 0030568975     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13039-1     Document Type: Article

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