A multi-scale view of skin thermal pain: From nociception to pain sensation

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1912, 2010, Pages 521-559

  Zhu, Y J ^a,b   Lu, T J ^b  

^a Stomatological Hospital   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nociception; Skin tissue; Temperature; Thermal damage; Thermal pain; Thermal stress

Indexed keywords

THERMOELASTICITY;

A-THERMAL; BIOLOGICAL BODY; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; HUMAN BODIES; ION CHANNEL; MULTI-SCALE MODELLING; MULTISCALES; NEUROLOGICAL MECHANISM; NOCICEPTION; PAIN RELIEF; PAIN SENSATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RANGE; SKIN TISSUE; THERAPEUTIC METHOD; THERMAL DAMAGE; THERMAL PAIN; THERMAL TREATMENT; THERMO-MECHANICAL; UNDERLYING MECHANISM;

THERMAL STRESS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAT; HUMAN; INNERVATION; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 76949102651     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0234     Document Type: Review

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