Evidence that adenosine mediates the depression of spinal dorsal horn neurons induced by peripheral vibration in the cat

Nociceptive neurons in the dorsal horn of the cat spinal cord are depressed by vibration applied to the ipsilateral hind limb. The present study investigated the pharmacological properties of this depression because of the possibility that it represents the neural basis at the spinal level for the analgesic effects of vibration in humans. Experiments were done in cats anesthetized with sodium pentobarbital and acutely spinalized at the first …