Chronic tendon pain: No tendinitis, but high levels of glutamate and a vasculoneural ingrowth - Implications for a new treatment?

Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 387-392

  Alfredson, Håkan ^a   Öhberg, Lars ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Glutamate; Neovascularization; Neuropeptides; Prostaglandins; Sclerosing injections; Tendon; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTISONE; GLUTAMIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; POLIDOCANOL; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; SCLEROSING AGENT; SUBSTANCE P;

BIOPSY; CELL INFILTRATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DNA MICROARRAY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; TENDINITIS; TENDON DISEASE;

EID: 20344379676     PISSN: 14750708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14750708.2.3.387     Document Type: Review

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