Repeated noxious stimulation of the skin enhances cutaneous pain perception of migraine patients in-between attacks: Clinical evidence for continuous sub-threshold increase in membrane excitability of central trigeminovascular neurons

Pain

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 693-700

  Weissman Fogel, Irit ^a,b   Sprecher, Elliot ^a   Granovsky, Yelena ^a   Yarnitsky, David ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Central pain pathways; Migraine; Temporal summation; Wind up

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INNERVATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; MIGRAINE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; ORBIT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN RECEPTOR; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN STIMULATION; SKIN SURFACE; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; THERMAL STIMULATION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FUNCTIONS OF THE SKIN AND ITS APPENDAGES; HEAT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STIMULATION; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; NEURONS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; TRIGEMINAL NERVE;

EID: 0038584595     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(03)00159-3     Document Type: Article

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