Adenosine triphosphate as a stimulant for nociceptive and non-nociceptive muscle group IV receptors in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 338, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-28

  Reinöhl, Jochen ^a   Hoheisel, Ulrich ^b   Unger, Thomas ^b   Mense, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adenosine triphosphate; Group IV muscle afferents; Nociceptors; Skeletal muscle; Unmyelinated fibres

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MUSCLE CELL; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SOLEUS MUSCLE;

EID: 0037455917     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(02)01360-5     Document Type: Article

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