Encoding of location and intensity of noxious indentation into rat skin by spatial populations of cutaneous mechano-nociceptors

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 3049-3061

  Khalsa, Partap S ^a   Zhang, Ce ^a   Qin, Yi Xian ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HINDLIMB; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN NERVE; SKIN RECEPTOR; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN STIMULATION;

EID: 0034031838     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.2000.83.5.3049     Document Type: Article

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