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Molecular mechanisms of nociception
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The sensation of pain alerts us to real or impending injury and triggers appropriate protective responses. Unfortunately, pain often outlives its usefulness as a warning system and instead becomes chronic and debilitating. This transition to a chronic phase involves changes within the spinal cord and brain, but there is also remarkable modulation where pain messages are initiated - at the level of the primary sensory neuron. Efforts to determine how these neurons detect pain-producing stimuli of a thermal, mechanical or chemical nature have revealed new signalling mechanisms and brought us closer to understanding the molecular events that facilitate transitions from acute to persistent pain.
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- Authors
- Julius, D., & Basbaum, A. I.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Julius, David
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2001-09
- Volume
- 413
- Issue
- 6852
- Pages
- 203-210
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
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- W1883044208
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- 2,685
- References
- 73
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- FWCI
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- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Ion Channels and Receptors
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Ion channel regulation and function
- Keywords
- nociception, pain, chronic pain, primary sensory neurons, pain detection, thermal pain, mechanical pain, chemical pain, acute to chronic pain transition, pain signalling, molecular mechanisms
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Forecasting, Humans, Neurons, Afferent, Pain, Signal Transduction
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