Possible representation of somatic pain in the rat insular visceral sensory cortex: A field potential study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 241, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 171-174

  Ito, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Field potential; Insular cortex; Nociception; Primary somatic A afferent; Somatovisceral convergence; Vagus afferent; Visceral sense

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INSULA; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; VISCERA;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; NEURALGIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VAGUS NERVE; VISCERA;

EID: 0032579516     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00007-X     Document Type: Article

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