Molecular mechanisms of nociception
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- 13 September 2001
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 413 (6852), 203-210
- https://doi.org/10.1038/35093019
Abstract
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.Keywords
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