Dynamic mechanical allodynia in humans is not mediated by a central presynaptic interaction of Aβ-mechanoreceptive and nociceptive C-afferents

Pain

Volumn 79, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 113-119

  Wasner, Gunnar ^a   Baron, Ralf ^a,b   Jänig, Wilfrid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Kiel and Lungen Clinic Grosshansdorf   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antidromic vasodilatation; Axon reflex; Capsaicin; Dorsal root reflex; Hyperalgesia

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN;

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE FIBER C; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY AFFERENT DEPOLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN BLOOD FLOW; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; CAPSAICIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MECHANORECEPTORS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RECEPTORS, PRESYNAPTIC; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SKIN; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0033054066     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00159-6     Document Type: Article

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