Failure of action potential propagation in sensory neurons: Mechanisms and loss of afferent filtering in C-type units after painful nerve injury

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 591, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1111-1131

  Gemes, Geza ^a,b   Koopmeiners, Andrew ^a   Rigaud, Marcel ^a,b   Lirk, Philipp ^a,c   Sapunar, Damir ^d   Bangaru, Madhavi Latha ^a   Vilceanu, Daniel ^a   Garrison, Sheldon R ^a   Ljubkovic, Marko ^a,d   Mueller, Samantha J ^a   Stucky, Cheryl L ^a   Hogan, Quinn H ^a,e  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^e CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; POTASSIUM;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MALE; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE FIBER MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIKARYON; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY FEEDBACK; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL GANGLION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; TIGHT JUNCTION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 84873713110     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.242750     Document Type: Article

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