Cutaneous responsiveness of lumbar spinal dorsal horn neurons is reduced by general anesthesia, an effect dependent in part on GABA(A) mechanisms

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1383-1390

  Ota, Kouichi ^a   Yanagidani, Tadao ^a   Kishikawa, Kazuhiro ^a   Yamamori, Yuji ^a   Collins, J G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; HALOTHANE; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SKIN NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 0031731509     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1998.80.3.1383     Document Type: Article

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