Criticality and degeneracy in injury-induced changes in primary afferent excitability and the implications for neuropathic pain

eLife

Volumn 2014, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Ratté, Stéphanie ^a,b,c   Zhu, Yi ^c   Lee, Kwan Yeop ^a   Prescott, Steven A ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; KINETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MUSCLE INJURY; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM CONDUCTANCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIMULATION; SPECTROSCOPY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INJURIES; NEURALGIA; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL GANGLION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURALGIA; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84898412631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.02370     Document Type: Article

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