Sensitivity of sympathetically correlated spinal interneurons, renal sympathetic nerve activity, and arterial pressure to somatic and visceral stimuli after chronic spinal injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1521-1529

  Krassioukov, Andrei V ^a   Johns, Devin G ^b   Schramm, Lawrence P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic dysreflexia; Hypertensive crises; Spinal cord injury; Sympathetic activity; Sympathetically correlated interneurons

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLON DILATATION; FEMALE; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; INTERNEURON; KIDNEY NERVE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0036922934     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089771502762300193     Document Type: Article

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