Effect of trigeminal tractotomy on behavioral response to dental pulp stimulation in the monkey
Effect of trigeminal tractotomy on behavioral response to dental pulp stimulation in the monkey
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三叉神经束切开术对猴牙髓刺激行为反应的影响
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1981
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K. Perryman
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R. Young;T. Oleson;K. Perryman
✓ Trigeminal tractotomy near the level of the obex was carried out in 10 macaque monkeys. Behavioral responses were evaluated by a quantitative paradigm measuring lever-press responses to electrical stimulation of the dental pulp or facial skin, and by assessing facial response to cutaneous pin-scratch before and after the tractotomy. Two pharmacological agents, strychnine and L-dopa, were administered and their effect on behavioral responses to these stimuli was studied. Tractotomy did not produce dental analgesia. Thresholds for escape from cutaneous electrical stimulation of facial skin, however, were elevated, consistent with marked hypalgesia to pin-scratch. The adversive responses to pin-scratch were absent in peripheral portions of the face, but near the midline and inside the oral cavity they were usually decreased or normal. Pharmacological agents caused a reduction in escape thresholds to cutaneous electrical stimulation and a shrinkage or abolition of the zone of analgesia to pinscratch. The re...