The degree of acute descending control of spinal nociception in an area of primary hyperalgesia is dependent on the peripheral domain of afferent input

Journal of Physiology

Volumn 592, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 3611-3624

  Drake, Robert A R ^a   Hulse, Richard P ^b   Lumb, Bridget M ^a   Donaldson, Lucy F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; YOHIMBINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; GLABROUS SKIN; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN SWELLING; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HEAT; INNERVATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; REFLEX; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; TOUCH; WISTAR RAT; WOOL;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTORS; PERIPHERAL NERVES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX; SKIN; SPINAL CORD; TOUCH; WOOL;

EID: 84906087127     PISSN: 00223751     EISSN: 14697793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.266494     Document Type: Article

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