Intrinsic membrane characteristics distinguish two subsets of nociceptive modulatory neurons in rat RVM

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2848-2858

  Zagon, Aniko ^a,b   Meng, Xianwei ^a   Fields, Howard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE MEMBRANE; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPOLARIZATION;

EID: 0031431224     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.78.6.2848     Document Type: Article

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