Encoding of burning pain from capsaicin-treated human skin in two categories of unmyelinated nerve fibres

Brain

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 560-571

  Schmelz, Martin ^c   Schmid, Roland ^a   Handwerker, Hermann O ^b   Torebjörk, H Erik ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Allodynia; Capsaicin; Hyperalgesia; Nociception; Receptive field

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; SODIUM CHANNEL; TETRODOTOXIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER C; NEUROGRAPHY; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; SENSORY NERVE; SYMPATHETIC REFLEX; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0033975763     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/123.3.560     Document Type: Article

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