Pain processing by spinal microcircuits: Afferent combinatorics

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 631-639

  Prescott, Steven A ^a   Ratté, Stéphanie ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

CELL SUBPOPULATION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GATE CONTROL THEORY; HUMAN; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE RECEPTOR; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSORY NERVE; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PAIN; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84865977675     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2012.02.010     Document Type: Review

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