Peripheral nerve injury alters excitatory synaptic transmission in laminal II of the rat dorsal horn

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 548, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 131-138

  Kohno, Tatsuro ^a   Moore, Kimberly A ^a,b   Baba, Hiroshi ^a,c   Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BETA NERVE FIBER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; DELTA NERVE FIBER; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE COMPRESSION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STUDENT T TEST; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ARTICLE; CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY; COMPLETE SCIATIC NERVE TRANSECTION INJURY; EXPERIMENTAL PARTIAL NERVE INJURY; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION VELOCITY; NERVE FIBER C; SPARED NERVE INJURY; SPINAL CORD SLICE; WHOLE CELL PATCH CLAMP;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037386202     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.036186     Document Type: Review

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