Different increase in C-fibre evoked responses after nociceptive conditioning stimulation in sham-operated and neuropathic rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 288, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-102

  Rygh, Lars Jørgen ^a,b   Kontinen, Vesa K ^a   Suzuki, Rie ^a   Dickenson, Anthony H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Central sensitisation; Hyperexcitability; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART RATE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE LESION; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSITIZATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; LIGATION; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 0034648064     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01201-5     Document Type: Article

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