Ensemble encoding of nociceptive stimulus intensity in the rat medial and lateral pain systems

Molecular Pain

Volumn 7, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Zhang, Yang ^a   Wang, Ning ^b   Wang, Jin Yan ^b   Chang, Jing Yu ^c   Woodward, Donald J ^c   Luo, Fei ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c Neuroscience Research Institute of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Ensemble encoding; Intensity; Laser; Pain; Single unit

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH RECORDING; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LICKING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS LATERAL NUCLEUS; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CELL COUNT; CINGULATE GYRUS; LASER; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; STIMULATION; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; ELECTRODES; GYRUS CINGULI; LASERS; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 80052027570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-7-64     Document Type: Article

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