A role for the sympathetic nervous system in sympathetically maintained pain?

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 121, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 996-997

  Macefield, Vaughan G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NORADRENALIN;

ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MECHANORECEPTOR; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROGRAPHY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PAIN; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 77952743852     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.02.014     Document Type: Editorial

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