Spinal dorsal horn cell receptive field size is increased in adult rats following neonatal hindpaw skin injury

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 550, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 255-261

  Torsney, Carole ^a,b   Fitsgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; HALOTHANE; URETHAN;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOOT INJURY; HINDLIMB; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IN VIVO STUDY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN INJURY; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; DERMATITIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; SKIN RECEPTOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HINDLIMB; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0037592256     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.043661     Document Type: Article

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