Differential inhibitory effect on human nociceptive skin senses induced by local stimulation of thin cutaneous fibers

Pain

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 103-112

  Nilsson, Hans Jörgen ^a   Schouenborg, Jens ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Nociception; Pain; Pruritus; Somatosensory; Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE FIBER C; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SKIN NERVE; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; COLD; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TOUCH; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 0033065511     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(98)00205-X     Document Type: Article

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