Sensory processing and functional reorganization of sensory transmission under pathological conditions in the spinal dorsal horn

Neuroscience Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 361-368

  Furue, Hidemasa ^a   Katafuchi, Toshihiko ^a   Yoshimura, Megumu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

In vivo patch; Inflammation; Nerve injury; Pain; Plastic change; Slice patch; Spinal dorsal horn; Synaptic transmission

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLYCINE; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN;

CHRONIC PAIN; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; INFLAMMATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PROJECTION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATCH CLAMP; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKIN STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS;

EID: 1642346151     PISSN: 01680102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neures.2003.12.005     Document Type: Review

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