Sensitivity of neurons in somatosensory cortex (S1) to cutaneous stimulation of the hindlimb immediately following a sciatic nerve crush

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-114

  Barbay, Scott ^a   Peden, Eric K ^b   Falchook, Gerald ^c   Nudo, Randolph J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Cutaneous thresholds; Peripheral nerve injury; Receptive field reorganization; Silent synapses; Somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HINDLIMB; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FOOT; HINDLIMB; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; NERVE CRUSH; NEURONS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SKIN; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0032809932     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990229970546     Document Type: Article

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