The human vasodilator axon reflex - An exclusively peripheral phenomenon?

Pain

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-75

  Groetzner, Peter ^a   Weidner, Christian ^b,c  

^a KLINIKUM NÜRNBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axon reflex; C fibres; Mechanoinsensitive; Neurogenic inflammation

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; HISTAMINE; MEPIVACAINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; AXON REFLEX FLARE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FIBER; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SKIN; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE; VASODILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AXONS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROGENIC INFLAMMATION; REFLEX; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77349101033     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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