Single-fiber recordings of unmyelinated afferents in pig

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 470, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 175-179

  Obreja, Otilia ^a   Schmelz, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity dependent hyperpolarisation; Animal model; Axonal excitability; Nociceptor classes

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE;

BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; ELECTRONEUROGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; LATENT PERIOD; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MICRONEUROGRAPHY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE FIBER C; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SWINE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROPHARMACOLOGY; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 75149151134     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.10.006     Document Type: Review

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