Role of GABA receptor subtypes in inhibition of primate spinothalamic tract neurons: Difference between spinal and periaqueductal gray inhibition

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 109-123

  Lin, Qing ^a   Peng, Yuan Bo ^a   Willis, William D ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IONTOPHORESIS; MONKEY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT;

EID: 9044254529     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1996.75.1.109     Document Type: Article

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