Network actions of pentobarbital in the rat mesopontine tegmentum on sensory inflow through the spinothalamic tract

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 700-713

  Namjoshi, Dhananjay R ^a,b   McErlane, Shelly A ^a   Taepavarapruk, Niwat ^a,c   Soja, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; SURAL NERVE; TEGMENTUM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CATHETERIZATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; GABA MODULATORS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROELECTRODES; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; PENTOBARBITAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; SURAL NERVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 68149182424     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.90933.2008     Document Type: Article

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