A cybernetic view on wind-up

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 304-306

  Farajidavar, Aydin ^a   Gharibzadeh, Shahriar ^a   Towhidkhah, Farzad ^a   Saeb, Sohrab ^a  

^a AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNEL; IONOPHORE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MAGNESIUM; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PROTEIN KINASE C;

AFFERENT NERVE GROUP 1; ARTICLE; CALCIUM CURRENT; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYBERNETICS; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; NERVE FIBER C; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; PAIN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; CYBERNETICS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MAGNESIUM; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEURONS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 33744801130     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2006.01.053     Document Type: Article

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