Mechanisms of touch-evoked pain (allodynia): A new model

Pain

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 13-23

  Cervero, Fernando ^a   Laird, Jennifer M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Hyperalgesia; Mechanoreceptors; Nociceptors; Presynaptic inhibition; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; TOUCH;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MECHANORECEPTORS; NERVE FIBERS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; TOUCH;

EID: 0030275503     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03165-X     Document Type: Review

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