Pathophysiological activity in rat dorsal horn neurones in segments rostral to a chronic spinal cord injury

Brain Research

Volumn 974, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 134-145

  Hoheisel, Ulrich ^b   Scheifer, Caroline ^a   Trudrung, Peter ^a   Unger, Thomas ^b   Mense, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic central pain; Deafferentation; Dorsal horn neuron; Impulse activity; Neuropathic pain; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERACTIVITY; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0038326690     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(03)02571-X     Document Type: Article

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