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Patrick D. Wall
Researcher at University College London
Publications - 180
Citations - 41755
Patrick D. Wall is an academic researcher from University College London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Spinal cord & Sciatic nerve. The author has an hindex of 80, co-authored 180 publications receiving 40324 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick D. Wall include American University of Beirut & Lebanese University.
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The effect of peripheral nerve lesions and of neonatal capsaicin in the rat on primary afferent depolarization
TL;DR: Primary afferent depolarization, p.a.d., is shown by the antidromic stimulation of afferents with a micro‐electrode in the dorsal horn and by recording the antidROMic volley on a cut peripheral nerve.
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If substance P fails to fulfil the criteria as a neurotransmitter in somatosensory afferents, what might be its function?
Patrick D. Wall,Maria Fitzgerald +1 more
TL;DR: It is shown that C fibres are involved in establishing and maintaining the connection between afferent fibres and central cells and that transport mechanisms play a role in this connectivity control.
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The relationship of perceived pain to afferent nerve impulses
Patrick D. Wall,S.B. McMahon +1 more
TL;DR: These findings endorse the concept that the quality of sensation is coded in specific sensory systems, and provide novel evidence that sensory quality, magnitude and localization can be exquisitely resolved at cognitive levels on the basis of input initiated in a single mechanoreceptor unit.
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Dichotomizing somatic nerve fibers exist in rats but they are rare
TL;DR: Electrophysiological methods that resolve problems of current spread were used to reinvestigate recent claims that over 40% of myelinated afferent neurons in rats have dichotomizing axons in which branches are maintained in two separate hindlimb nerves.
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Five sources of a dorsal root potential : their interactions and origins in the superficial dorsal horn
Patrick D. Wall,Malcolm Lidierth +1 more
TL;DR: The dorsal root potential (DRP) was measured on the lumbar dorsal roots of urethan anesthetized rats and evoked by stimulation of five separate inputs and Spike-triggered averaging was used to examine the relationship between the ongoing discharge of superficial dorsal horn neurons and the spontaneous DRP.