Velocity recovery cycles of single C fibres innervating rat skin

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 578, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 213-232

  George, Annette ^a   Serra, Jordi ^b   Navarro, Xavier ^b   Bostock, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; MECHANORECEPTOR; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROGRAPHY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SKIN NERVE; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; ACTION POTENTIAL AMPLITUDE; ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; CELL FUNCTION; CUTANEOUS C FIBER TYPE 1A; CUTANEOUS C FIBER TYPE 1B; CUTANEOUS C FIBER TYPE 2; CUTANEOUS C FIBER TYPE 3; CUTANEOUS C FIBER TYPE 4; LATENT PERIOD; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CONDUCTION VELOCITY; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NOCICEPTION; SPIKE WAVE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; MEMBRANES; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN;

EID: 33845736880     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2006.116129     Document Type: Article

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