Postherpetic neuralgia: Are c-nociceptors involved in signalling and maintenance of tactile allodynia?

Brain

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 1993, Pages 1477-1496

  Baron, Ralf ^a   Saguer, Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TOUCH; VASODILATATION;

AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTAMINE; HUMAN; IONTOPHORESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURALGIA; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TOUCH;

EID: 0027731337     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/116.6.1477     Document Type: Article

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