Mechanisms of cardiac pain

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 61, Issue , 1999, Pages 143-167

  Foreman, R D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortex; Heart; Spinal cord; Sympathetic afferents; Vagus; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BRADYKININ;

ANGINA PECTORIS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; HEART INNERVATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY; REVIEW; SENSORY CORTEX; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HEART; HUMANS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; SPINAL CORD; VISCERA;

EID: 0033032020     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.61.1.143     Document Type: Review

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