Absent innervation of skin and sweat glands in congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1596-1601

  Nolano, M ^a   Crisci, C ^a   Santoro, L ^b   Barbieri, F ^b   Casale, R ^a   Kennedy, W R ^c   Wendelschafer Crabb, G ^c   Provitera, V ^a   Di Lorenzo, N ^b   Caruso, G ^b  

^a IRCCS   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anhidrosis; Congenital insensitivity to pain; Cutaneous innervation; Skin; Sweat glands

Indexed keywords

HISTAMINE; PILOCARPINE;

ANHIDROSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONGENITAL ANALGESIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; NEUROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; SWEAT GLAND;

CHILD; FEMALE; HEREDITARY SENSORY AND AUTONOMIC NEUROPATHIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURAL CONDUCTION; SKIN; SURAL NERVE; SWEAT GLANDS;

EID: 0034284256     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(00)00351-5     Document Type: Article

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