Temporomandibular joint-evoked responses by spinomedullary neurons and masseter muscle are enhanced after repeated psychophysical stress

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 2025-2034

  Okamoto, Keiichiro ^a   Tashiro, Akimasa ^a   Chang, Zheng ^a   Thompson, Randall ^a   Bereiter, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Forced swim stress; Masseter muscle; Pain; Rat; Temporomandibular joint; Trigeminal subnucleus caudalis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; MENTAL STRESS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MASSETER MUSCLE; PHYSICAL EXERTION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

EID: 84863224850     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08100.x     Document Type: Article

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