The neuropathic pain triad: Neurons, immune cells and glia

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1361-1368

  Scholz, Joachim ^a   Woolf, Clifford J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETANERCEPT; FLUOROCITRIC ACID; MINOCYCLINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38 INHIBITOR; PROPENTOFYLLINE; TERIFLUNOMIDE; THALIDOMIDE;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL INVASION; CLINICAL TRIAL; GLIA CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOMODULATION; MICROGLIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NERVE CELL; NERVE LESION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SATELLITE CELL; SCHWANN CELL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL GANGLION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURALGIA; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 35548937457     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1992     Document Type: Review

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