Nociceptors as chronic drivers of pain and hyperreflexia after spinal cord injury: An adaptive-maladaptive hyperfunctional state hypothesis

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 3 AUG, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Walters, Edgar T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Hyperexcitability; Inflammatory pain; Memory of injury; Neuropathic pain; Primary afferent neuron; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866508449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00309     Document Type: Article

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