Assessment of mechanical and thermal thresholds of human C nociceptors during increases in skin sympathetic nerve activity

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1485-1490

  Watanabe, Mitsuhiro ^a   Toma, Shinobu ^a   Murakami, Masazumi ^a   Shimoyama, Ichiro ^a   Nakajima, Yoshio ^a   Moriya, Hideshige ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Afferent C fiber; Human; Microneurography; Skin sympathetic nerve activity; Sympathetically maintained pain

Indexed keywords

ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE FIBERS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERONEAL NERVE; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0036348960     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(02)00159-1     Document Type: Article

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