Differential axonal conduction patterns of mechano-sensitive and mechano-insensitive nociceptors - A combined experimental and modelling study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Petersson, Marcus E ^a   Obreja, Otilia ^b   Lampert, Angelika ^c   Carr, Richard W ^b   Schmelz, Martin ^b   Fransén, Erik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNEL; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.7; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.8;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANO INSENSITIVE NOCICEPTOR; MECHANO SENSITIVE NOCICEPTOR; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SWINE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMORAL NERVE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; INNERVATION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTION; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PHYSIOLOGY; PIG; SKIN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXONS; DELAYED RECTIFIER POTASSIUM CHANNELS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMORAL NERVE; GENE EXPRESSION; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; NAV1.7 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; NAV1.8 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTORS; SKIN; SODIUM-POTASSIUM-EXCHANGING ATPASE; SWINE;

EID: 84923926155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103556     Document Type: Article

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