Velocity recovery cycles of C fibres innervating human skin

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 553, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 649-663

  Bostock, Hugh ^b   Campero, Mario ^c   Serra, Jordi ^d   Ochoa, José ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^d HOSPITAL GENERAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); POTASSIUM; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ADULT; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ARTICLE; COLD SENSITIVITY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE MEMBRANE; NEUROGRAPHY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN NERVE; SPIKE WAVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; TIME; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; PAIN RECEPTOR; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADRENERGIC FIBERS; ADULT; ANKLE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTORS; PERONEAL NERVE; REACTION TIME; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; SKIN; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 0347503512     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2003.046342     Document Type: Article

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