Reorganization of the primary afferent termination in the rat spinal dorsal horn during post-natal development

Developmental Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 29-36

  Park, Jin Soo ^a,b   Nakatsuka, Terumasa ^c   Nagata, Kensei ^b   Higashi, Hideho ^b   Yoshimura, Megumu ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Plasticity; Sprouting; Substantia gelatinosa

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE ENDING; NERVE SPROUTING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPSES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033548405     PISSN: 01653806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-3806(98)00186-2     Document Type: Article

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