Do we know enough to put forward a unifying hypothesis?

Journal of Pain

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages

  Mense, Siegfried ^a   Clark, Glenn T ^b   Maekawa, Kenji ^b,c   Kuboki, Takuo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR REFLEX; CHRONIC PAIN; FIBROMYALGIA; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MYALGIA; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NOTE; OXYGEN TENSION; PAIN; REFLEX; SYMPATHETIC TONE;

EID: 0036342270     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jpai.2002.125925     Document Type: Article

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