Quick discrimination of Adelta and C fiber mediated pain based on three verbal descriptors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Beissner, Florian ^a   Brandau, Amadeus ^a   Henke, Christian ^a   Felden, Lisa ^a   Baumgärtner, Ulf ^b   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^b   Oertel, Bruno G ^a   Lötsch, Jörn ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTA NERVE FIBER; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THERMAL STIMULATION; HEAT; MYELINATED NERVE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958536813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012944     Document Type: Article

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