Contralaterally induced dorsal root reflex shares common final pathway with ipsilaterally elicited ones in Wistar rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 273, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 133-136

  Lin, Tzer Bin ^a   Fu, Tsu Ching ^b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Contralateral; Dorsal root reflex; Facilitation; Inhibition; Rat; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; FACILITATION; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SHORT SURVEY; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL REFLEX;

EID: 0032821496     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00646-1     Document Type: Article

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