Spontaneous pain, both neuropathic and inflammatory, is related to frequency of spontaneous firing in intact C-fiber nociceptors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1281-1292

  Djouhri, Laiche ^a   Koutsikou, Stella ^a   Fang, Xin ^a,b   McMullan, Simon ^a   Lawson, Sally N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

C fiber; Dorsal root ganglion; DRG; Neuroinflammation; Neuropathic pain; Pain; Spontaneous pain

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 3; FREUND ADJUVANT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY PAIN; INTESTINE; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE FIBER TRANSECTION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AXOTOMY; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HEAT; HINDLIMB; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; LIGATION; MUSCLE SPINDLES; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEURALGIA; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SILK; SPINAL NERVES; SUTURES; WALLERIAN DEGENERATION;

EID: 32644440589     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3388-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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