Enchanced excitability of sensory neurons in rats with cutaneous hyperalgesia produced by chronic compression of the dorsal root ganglion

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 3359-3366

  Zhang, Jun Ming ^a,b   Song, Xue Jun ^a,c   Lamotte, Robert H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^c Parker College of Chiropractic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; NERVE FIBER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE COMPRESSION SYNDROMES; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0033233119     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1999.82.6.3359     Document Type: Article

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