Sympathetic afferent units from lumbar intervertebral discs

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 554-557

  Takebayashi, T ^a   Cavanaugh, J M ^b   Kallakuri, S ^b   Chen, C ^b   Yamashita, T ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA NERVE FIBER; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MECHANICAL PROBE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SENSORY NERVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE;

ANIMALS; CARRAGEENAN; DISCITIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 33646191649     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.88B4.17194     Document Type: Article

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