Responses of primate spinomesencephalic tract cells to intradermal capsaicin

Neuroscience

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1377-1392

  Dougherty, P M ^a   Schwartz, A ^a   Lenz, F A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Excitatory amino acids; Glutamate; Hyperalgesia; Periaqueductal gray; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CAPSAICIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HYPERALGESIA; IONTOPHORESIS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MESENCEPHALON; MONKEY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MESENCEPHALON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032933856     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00551-X     Document Type: Article

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