Abnormal anterior pretectal nucleus activity contributes to central pain syndrome

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 3044-3053

  Murray, Peter D ^a   Masri, Radi ^a,b   Keller, Asaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CENTRAL PAIN SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRETECTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD LESION; THALAMUS POSTERIOR NUCLEUS; ZONA INCERTA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; NEURONS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 77953525999     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01070.2009     Document Type: Article

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