A Review on Experimental Assessments of Pain Threshold in Healthy Human Subjects

A B S T R A C T There are three types of nerve fibers that are involved in the transmission of pain stimuli: C fibers (slower fibers) for thermal, mechanical and chemical stimuli, A-delta fibers for thermal or mechanical stimuli and A-beta fibers for touch stimuli. Clinically, this is crucial in mak...

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Main Authors: Seyyed-Ehsan Parhizgar, Hamed Ekhtiari
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2010-08-01
Series:Basic and Clinical Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-45&slc_lang=en&sid=1