Chapter 24. Spinal cord mechanisms of hyperalgesia and allodynia: Role of peripheral input from nociceptors

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 113, Issue C, 1996, Pages 413-422

  Cervero, Fernando ^a  

^a Medical School   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MECHANORECEPTOR; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030461554     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: 18757855     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)61101-2     Document Type: Article

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