Decline in spontaneous activity of group Aαβ sensory afferents after sciatic nerve axotomy in rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 274, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-44

  Seburn, Kevin L ^a   Catlin, Pamela A ^b   Dixon, Joel F ^c   Lee, Ming H ^c   Matteson, Melissa S ^c   Cope, Timothy C ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Physical Therapy Degree Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Axotomy; Rat; Sciatic nerve; Sensation; Spontaneous activity; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HINDLIMB; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032885956     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00667-9     Document Type: Article

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