Molecular mechanisms of cold pain
The sensation of cooling is essential for survival. Extreme cold is a noxious stimulus that drives protective behaviour and that we thus perceive as pain. However, chronic pain patients suffering from cold allodynia paradoxically experience innocuous cooling as excruciating pain. Peripheral sensory...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2020-01-01
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Series: | Neurobiology of Pain |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452073X20300027 |