Nociceptive input to ascending tract neurones forwarding information from low threshold cutaneous and muscle afferents in cats

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 117-120

  Schomburg, E D ^b   Jankowska, E ^a   Wiklund Fernstrom K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ascending tracts; Nociceptors; Spinal cord; TTX resistant C fibres

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT; MUSCLE INNERVATION; NERVE FIBER C; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN NERVE; SKIN STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACT;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMAL; CATS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HEAT; HINDLIMB; MUSCLES; NEURONS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; SPINOCEREBELLAR TRACTS; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0034282259     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-0102(00)00145-0     Document Type: Article

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