Three functionally distinct classes of C-fibre nociceptors in primates

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Wooten, Matthew ^a   Weng, Hao Jui ^a   Hartke, Timothy V ^a   Borzan, Jasenka ^a   Klein, Amanda H ^a   Turnquist, Brian ^b   Dong, Xinzhong ^a   Meyer, Richard A ^a   Ringkamp, Matthias ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BETHEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ALANINE; CALCIUM; CAPSAICIN; HISTAMINE;

GENE EXPRESSION; HEAT BALANCE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PRIMATE;

ARTICLE; BURN; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN RECEPTOR; PRIMATE; SENSORY NERVE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINAL GANGLION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; HEAT; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACACA; MALE; NONMYELINATED NERVE; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BETA-ALANINE; CAPSAICIN; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HISTAMINE; HOT TEMPERATURE; INJECTIONS, INTRADERMAL; MACACA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NOCICEPTORS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84903176939     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5122     Document Type: Article

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