Quantitative description of the voltage dependence of axonal excitability in human cutaneous afferents

Brain

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1975-1983

  Burke, David ^a,b   Mogyoros, Ilona ^a   Vagg, Rebecca ^a   Kiernan, Matthew C ^a  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Axonal excitability; Na+ channels; Refractory period; Time constant

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; TIME;

AXONS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SENSATION; SKIN;

EID: 0031663619     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/121.10.1975     Document Type: Article

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