Effects of spinal and peripheral nerve lesions on the intersegmental synchronization of the spontaneous activity of dorsal horn neurons in the cat lumbosacral spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 361, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 102-105

  Garcia C A ^a   Chavez D ^a   Jimenez I ^a   Rudomin, P ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Cord dorsum potential; Dorsal horn neuron; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PERONEUS NERVE; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SURAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CATS; DENERVATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INTERNEURONS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; REFLEX; SKIN; SPINAL NERVES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 2342570939     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.12.068     Document Type: Article

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