Nociceptive Transmission to Rat Primary Somatosensory Cortex - Comparison of Sedative and Analgesic Effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Granmo, Marcus ^a   Jensen, Tanja ^a   Schouenborg, Jens ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOFLURANE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NITROUS OXIDE;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANESTHESIA LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; LASER C FIBER EVOKED CORTICAL POTENTIAL; MALE; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; RAT; SEDATION;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; ISOFLURANE; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NOCICEPTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84872173131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053966     Document Type: Article

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