Peripheral inflammation facilitates Aβ fiber-mediated synaptic input to the substantia gelatinosa of the adult rat spinal cord

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 859-867

  Baba, Hiroshi ^a   Doubell, Timothy P ^a,b   Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dorsal horn; Inflammation; Neural plasticity; Pain; Substantia gelatinosa; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033555793     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-02-00859.1999     Document Type: Article

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