Pain following spinal cord injury: The clinical problem and experimental studies

Pain

Volumn 68, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 185-194

  Yezierski, Robert P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

allodynia; central pain; dysesthetic pain syndrome; excitotoxicity; GABA; ischemia

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ALLODYNIA; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; PAIN; PREVALENCE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0030444120     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03178-8     Document Type: Review

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