Surgical Injury in the Neonatal Rat Alters the Adult Pattern of Descending Modulation from the Rostroventral Medulla

Anesthesiology

Volumn 122, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1391-1400

  Walker, Suellen M ^a,b   Fitzgerald, Maria ^b   Hathway, Gareth J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEVOBUPIVACAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; HIND PAW; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOALGESIA; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTROVENTRAL MEDULLA; SURGICAL INJURY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; FOOT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INJURIES; INNERVATION; NERVE BLOCK; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REFLEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SURGERY;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE BLOCK; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 84937604062     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000000658     Document Type: Article

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