Postnatal changes in responses of rat dorsal horn cells to afferent stimulation: A fibre-induced sensitization

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 509, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 859-868

  Jennings, Ernest ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URETHAN;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SKIN STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; AFTERDISCHARGE; AGE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032525975     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7793.1998.859bm.x     Document Type: Article

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