Responses of dorsal column nuclei neurons in rats with experimental mononeuropathy

Pain

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 407-415

  Miki, Kenji ^a   Iwata, Koichi ^b   Tsuboi, Yoshiyuki ^b   Sumino, Rhyuji ^b   Tetsuo Fukuoka, ^a   Tachibana, Toshiya ^a   Tokunaga, Atsushi ^a   Noguchi, Koichi ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic constriction nerve injury; Extracelluloar recording; Gracile nucleus; Neuropathic pain

Indexed keywords

AFTERDISCHARGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRACILE NUCLEUS; MECHANORECEPTOR; MONONEUROPATHY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEURALGIA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINE;

EID: 17344394536     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00073-6     Document Type: Article

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