Evaluation of nociceptive Aδ- and C-fiber dysfunction with lidocaine using intraepidermal electrical stimulation

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 125, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1870-1877

  Kodaira, Minori ^a,b   Inui, Koji ^a   Kakigi, Ryusuke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

A fibers; C fibers; Intraepidermal electrical stimulation; Lidocaine; Pain; Small fiber neuropathy

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; PLACEBO; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAEPIDERMAL ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER ALPHA DELTA; NERVE FIBER C; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; SENSATION; SMALL FIBER NEUROPATHY; DRUG EFFECTS; INNERVATION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NOCICEPTION; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906077160     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.01.009     Document Type: Article

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