Early postnatal loss of heat sensitivity among cutaneous myelinated nociceptors in Swiss-Webster mice

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1385-1396

  Ye, Yi ^a   Woodbury, C Jeffery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOUSE; MYELINATION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN RECEPTOR; SKIN STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; SWISS WEBSTER MOUSE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOTIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HOT TEMPERATURE; MECHANORECEPTORS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PHENOTYPE; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SKIN; TEMPERATURE SENSE;

EID: 77949705400     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00472.2009     Document Type: Article

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