Placing pain on the sensory map: Classic papers by Ed Perl and colleagues

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1871-1873

  Mason, Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN;

EDITORIAL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY ANALYSIS; SKIN SENSATION;

EID: 33947105980     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01327.2006     Document Type: Editorial

References (23)

1. Akil H. Scientific strategy in neuroscience: discovery science versus hypothesis-driven research. Neuroscience Quarterly, 2003.
2. Bessou P, Perl ER. Response of cutaneous sensory units with unmyelinated fibers to noxious stimuli. J Neurophysiol 32: 1025-1043, 1969.
3. Burgess PR, Perl ER. Myelinated afferent fibres responding specifically to noxious stimulation of the skin. J Physiol 190: 541-562, 1967.
4. Christensen BN, Perl ER. Spinal neurons specifically excited by noxious or thermal stimuli: marginal zone of the dorsal horn. J Neurophysiol 33: 293-307, 1970.
5. Coull JA, Beggs S, Boudreau D, Boivin D, Tsuda M, Inoue K, Gravel C, Salter MW, De Koninck Y. BDNF from microglia causes the shift in neuronal anion gradient underlying neuropathic pain. Nature 438: 1017-1021, 2005.
6. Craig AD, Krout K, Andrew D. Quantitative response characteristics of thermoreceptive and nociceptive lamina I spinothalamic neurons in the cat. J Neurophysiol 86: 1459-1480, 2001.
7. Douglas WW, Ritchie JM. Nonmedullated fibres in the saphenous nerve which signal touch. J Physiol 139: 385-399, 1957.
8. Erlanger J, Gasser H. The compound nature of the action current of nerve as disclosed by the cathode ray oscillograph. American Journal of Physiology 70: 624-666, 1924.
9. Han ZS, Zhang ET, Craig AD. Nociceptive and thermoreceptive lamina I neurons are anatomically distinct. Nat Neurosci 1: 218-225, 1998.
10. Heinbecker P, Bishop G, O'Leary J. Pain and touch fibers in peripheral nerves. Archs Neurol Psychiat, Chicago 29:771, 1933.
11. Hu HJ, Carrasquillo Y, Karim F, Jung WE, Nerbonne JM, Schwarz TL, Gereau RWt. The kv4.2 potassium channel subunit is required for pain plasticity. Neuron 50: 89-100, 2006.
12. Light AR, Perl ER. Reexamination of the dorsal root projection to the spinal dorsal horn including observations on the differential termination of coarse and fine fibers. J Comp Neurol 186: 117-131, 1979.
13. Light AR, Perl ER. Spinal termination of functionally identified primary afferent neurons with slowly conducting myelinated fibers. J Comp Neurol 186: 133-150, 1979.
14. Malmberg AB, Chen C, Tonegawa S, Basbaum AI. Preserved acute pain and reduced neuropathic pain in mice lacking PKCgamma. Science 278: 279-283, 1997.
15. Melzack R, Wall PD. On the nature of cutaneous sensory mechanisms. Brain 85: 331-356, 1962.
16. Naveilhan P, Hassani H, Lucas G, Blakeman KH, Hao JX, Xu XJ, Wiesenfeld-Hallin Z, Thoren P, Ernfors P. Reduced antinociception and plasma extravasation in mice lacking a neuropeptide Y receptor. Nature 409: 513-517, 2001.
17. Norrsell U, Finger S, Lajonchere C. Cutaneous sensory spots and the "law of specific nerve energies": history and development of ideas. Brain Res Bull 48: 457-465, 1999.
18. Perl ER. Is pain a specific sensation? J Psychiatr Res 8: 273-287, 1971.
19. Schaible HG, Schmidt RF. Effects of an experimental arthritis on the sensory properties of fine articular afferent units. J Neurophysiol 54: 1109-1122, 1985.
20. Schmelz M, Schmid R, Handwerker HO, Torebjork HE. Encoding of burning pain from capsaicin-treated human skin in two categories of unmyelinated nerve fibres. Brain 123 Pt 3: 560-571, 2000.
21. Sugiura Y, Lee CL, Perl ER. Central projections of identified, unmyelinated (C) afferent fibers innervating mammalian skin. Science 234: 358-361, 1986.
22. Torebjork E. Nociceptor activation and pain. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 308: 227-234, 1985.
23. Zotterman Y. Touch, pain and tickling: an electro-physiological investigation on cutaneous sensory nerves. J Physiol 95: 1-28, 1939.