Effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on spontaneous and noxiously evoked dorsal horn cell activity in cats with transected spinal cords

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 125-128

  Garrison, David W ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Noxious stimulation; Pain modulation; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

EID: 0030603992     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)13023-8     Document Type: Article

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