Bipolar spinal cord stimulation attenuates mechanical hypersensitivity at an intensity that activates a small portion of A-fiber afferents in spinal nerve-injured rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 199, Issue , 2011, Pages 470-480

  Yang, F ^a   Carteret, A F ^a   Wacnik, P W ^b   Chung, C Y ^c   Xing, L ^a   Dong, X ^a   Meyer, R A ^a   Raja, S N ^a   Guan, Y ^a  

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

^b MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^c FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compound action potential; Motor threshold; Neuropathic pain; Spinal cord stimulation; Spinal nerve injury

Indexed keywords

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; NERVE INJURY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL NERVE INJURY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HYPERALGESIA; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURALGIA; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 83055184371     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.09.049     Document Type: Article

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