Afferent pathways and responses of T3-T4 spinal neurons to cervical and thoracic esophageal distensions in rats

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 10-20

  Qin, Chao ^a   Chandler, Margaret J ^a   Foreman, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extracellular recording; Noxious visceral input; Sympathetic afferents; Vagal afferents

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0345724837     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2003.08.005     Document Type: Article

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