Pain: Moving from Symptom Control toward Mechanism-Specific Pharmacologic Management

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 140, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 441-451

  Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; KETAMINE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

CELL INTERACTION; FIBROMYALGIA; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 1542268262     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-140-8-200404200-00010     Document Type: Review

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