Postnatal Temporal, Spatial and Modality Tuning of Nociceptive Cutaneous Flexion Reflexes in Human Infants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Cornelissen, Laura ^a,d   Fabrizi, Lorenzo ^a   Patten, Deborah ^a   Worley, Alan ^c   Meek, Judith ^b   Boyd, Stewart ^c   Slater, Rebeccah ^a,e   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR REFLEX; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREMATURITY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TACTILE STIMULATION; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; REFLEX; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA;

EID: 84885068085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076470     Document Type: Article

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