Reduction in inflammation-induced sensitization of dorsal horn neurons by transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in anesthetized rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 94-102

  Ma, Y T ^a   Sluka, K A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Arthritis; Electrical stimulation; Inflammation; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CYTOLOGY; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG EFFECT; FOOT; INNERVATION; METHODOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SENSORY NERVE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STIMULATION;

CARRAGEENAN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALGESIA; ANIMALS; CARRAGEENAN; DOWN-REGULATION; FOOT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0035111417     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210000629     Document Type: Article

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