Classification of nociceptors - To what purpose?

Pain

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 355-356

  Handwerker, Hermann O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HEAT NOCICEPTOR; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PEPTIDERGIC NOCICEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEPING NOCICEPTOR;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN;

EID: 76449108204     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.12.012     Document Type: Editorial

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