Effect of age and nerve injury on cross-excitation among sensory neurons in rat dorsal root ganglia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 259, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-98

  Liu, Chang Ning ^a   Amir, Ron ^a   Devor, Marshall ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cross depolarization; Dorsal root ganglion; Nerve injury; Non synaptic coupling; Pain

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE INJURY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL GANGLION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PAIN; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033534359     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00909-4     Document Type: Article

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