Responses of medullary dorsal horn neurons to corneal stimulation by CO2 pulses in the rat

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 2092-2107

  Hirata, Harumitsu ^b   Hu, James W ^c   Bereiter, David A ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THALAMUS; TRIGEMINAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032693864     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.5.2092     Document Type: Article

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