Topical anesthetic before microneurography decreases pain without affecting sympathetic traffic

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 86, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 120-126

  Cooke, William H ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic regulation; Muscle sympathetic nerve activity; Pain

Indexed keywords

EMLA; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PAIN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ANESTHETICS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; PAIN; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 0034727917     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(00)00240-X     Document Type: Article

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