Electrical stimulation at distinct peripheral sites in spinal nerve injured rats leads to different afferent activation profiles

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 505, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-57

  Yang, Fei ^a   Chung, Chih yang ^b   Wacnik, Paul W ^c   Carteret, Alene F ^a   McKelvy, Alvin D ^a   Meyer, Richard A ^d   Raja, Srinivasa N ^a   Guan, Yun ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound action potential; Pain; Peripheral nerve stimulation; Spinal nerve injury

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; DORSAL ROOT POTENTIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE; SHAM PROCEDURE; SPINAL NERVE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXTREMITIES; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SKIN; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 82455162415     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.09.065     Document Type: Article

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