Post-spike excitability indicates changes in membrane potential of isolated C-fibers

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 172-182

  Moalem Taylor, Gila ^a   Lang, Philip M ^b   Tracey, David J ^a   Grafe, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Superexcitability; Sural nerve; Threshold tracking; Unmyelinated axons; Vagus nerve

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPERPOLARIZATION; MALE; MEMBRANE CURRENT; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROGRAPHY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPIKE; SURAL NERVE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; VAGUS NERVE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACTION POTENTIALS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; AFFINITY LABELS; ANIMALS; CESIUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SURAL NERVE; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 34547668444     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20793     Document Type: Article

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