Plastic changes in sensory inputs to rat substantia gelatinosa neurons following peripheral inflammation

Pain

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-47

  Nakatsuka, Terumasa ^a,b   Park, Jin Soo ^a   Kumamoto, Eiichi ^a   Tamaki, Tetsuya ^b   Yoshimura, Megumu ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyperalgesia; Patch clamp; Peripheral inflammation; Plasticity; Spinal dorsal horn; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; GANGLIA, SPINAL; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; NEURITIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033061522     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(99)00037-8     Document Type: Article

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