Simultaneous recordings of wind-up of paired spinal dorsal horn nociceptive neuron and nociceptive flexion reflex in rats

Brain Research

Volumn 960, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 235-245

  You, Hao Jun ^a   Morch, Carsten Dahl ^a   Chen, Jun ^a,b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nociceptive flexion reflex; Opioid receptors; Sensory motor interaction; Single motor unit; Spinal cord dorsal horn; Wide dynamic range neuron; Wind up

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FLEXOR REFLEX; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; HISTOGRAM; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MOTOR UNIT; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; RECORDING; SKIN RECEPTOR; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSHOCK; FENTANYL; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037449411     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(02)03895-7     Document Type: Article

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