Inhibition of evoked C-fibre responses in the dorsal horn after contralateral intramuscular injection of capsaicin involves activation of descending pathways

Pain

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 413-418

  Gjerstad, Johannes ^a   Tjøsen, Arne ^a   Svendsen, Frode ^a   Hole, Kjell ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Conditioning; Nociception; Pain; Reversible spinalization; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE PROJECTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; COLD; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032997064     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00235-8     Document Type: Article

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