Pain and itch: Insights into the neural circuits of aversive somatosensation in health and disease

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 880-887

  Ross, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 3;

ALLODYNIA; AVERSION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHRONIC PAIN; COLD SENSITIVITY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE COURSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HUMAN; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE FIBER C; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROMODULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN IRRITATION; SKIN NERVE; SKIN SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; THERMORECEPTOR;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PAIN; PRURITUS; SPINAL CORD; TRPC CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 84855517955     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.10.012     Document Type: Review

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