Electrically induced quantitative sudomotor axon reflex test in human volunteers

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 159, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 111-116

  Sommer, Peter ^a   Kluschina, Olga ^a   Schley, Marcus ^a   Namer, Barbara ^b   Schmelz, Martin ^a   Rukwied, Roman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pain; QSART; Sweat; Sympathetic efferents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SWEATING; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; AXONS; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFLEX; SWEAT GLANDS; SYMPATHETIC FIBERS, POSTGANGLIONIC;

EID: 78649904456     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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