Sympathetically correlated activity of dorsal horn neurons in spinally transected rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2966-2974

  Chau, David ^a   Kim, Namjin ^a   Schramm, Lawrence P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; DORSAL RHIZOTOMY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0030814190     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.6.2966     Document Type: Article

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