title: Increased response to sural nerve input in the dorsal horn following chronic spinal cord hemisection.
abstract: Monosynaptic input from sural nerve afferents to dorsal horn neurons was mapped bilaterally using electrical stimulation in normal cats and cats with spinal cord hemisections. Animals hemisected 6 h-5 days previously did not differ significantly from normals and the sides of the cord did not differ in either group. In animals hemisected 88-182 days previously there were significantly more sites responsive to sural nerve input ipsilateral to the hemisection, than contralateral to it.
mesh_terms: D000344:Afferent Pathways / Q000502:physiology; D000818:Animals; D002415:Cats; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal / Q000502:physiology*; D009412:Nerve Fibers / Q000502:physiology; D009416:Nerve Regeneration; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000502:physiology*; D013127:Spinal Nerves / Q000502:physiology*; D013497:Sural Nerve / Q000502:physiology*; D013569:Synapses / Q000502:physiology