Properties of individual embryonic primary afferents and their spinal projections in the rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1590-1600

  Mirnics, Károly ^a   Koerber, H Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION;

EID: 0030759965     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.3.1590     Document Type: Article

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