Sympathetic sudomotor skin activity in human after complete spinal cord injury

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 102, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 78-84

  Reitz, André ^a   Schmid, Daniel M ^b   Curt, Armin ^a   Knapp, Peter A ^a   Schurch, Brigitte ^a  

^a BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Afferent pathway; Electric stimulation; Galvanic skin response; Spinal cord injury; Sympathetic nervous system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUDENDAL NERVE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SWEATING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THORACIC SPINE; TIBIAL NERVE;

ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ADULT; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0037195491     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(02)00207-2     Document Type: Article

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