Selective activation of primary afferent fibers evaluated by sine-wave electrical stimulation

Molecular Pain

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Koga, Kohei ^a   Furue, Hidemasa ^a   Rashid, Harunor ^a   Takaki, Atsushi ^a   Katafuchi, Toshihiko ^a   Yoshimura, Megumu ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA;

EID: 33745994920     PISSN: 17448069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-1-13     Document Type: Article

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