Synchronicity of nociceptive and non-nociceptive adjacent neurons in the spinal dorsal horn of the rat: Stimulus-induced plasticity

Neuroscience

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 39-54

  Eblen Zajjur, A A ^a,b   Sandkuhler J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

autocorrelation; cross correlation; neuronal network; sensory processing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEAT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0030571604     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(96)00286-2     Document Type: Article

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