Exposure of the dorsal root ganglion in rats to pulsed radiofrequency currents activates dorsal horn lamina I and II neurons

Neurosurgery

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 850-856

  Higuchi, Yoshinori ^a,b   Nashold Jr , Blaine S ^a,b   Sluijter, Menno ^c   Cosman, Eric ^d   Pearlstein, Robert D ^a   Kanpolat, Yücel ^e   Hodge Jr , Charles J ^e   Meyerson, Björn A ^e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e Box 3094 ^*

Author keywords

CFOS; Pain; Pulsed RF; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEATING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAMINECTOMY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL PAIN;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SPINAL; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PULSATILE FLOW; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036556287     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200204000-00030     Document Type: Article

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