Impulse propagation over tactile and kinaesthetic sensory axons to central target neurones of the cuneate nucleus in cat

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 550, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 553-562

  Coleman, G T ^a   Mahns, D A ^a   Zhang, H Q ^a   Rowe, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL JUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TARGET CELL; TOUCH; ADULT; KINESTHESIA; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CONDUCTION; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SENSORY NERVE; SPIKE WAVE; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; BRAIN STEM; CATS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; JOINTS; KINESTHESIS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TOUCH;

EID: 0037778952     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2002.037002     Document Type: Article

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