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Molecular mechanisms of nociception

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  • David Julius

    (University of California San Francisco)

  • Allan I. Basbaum

    (University of California San Francisco)

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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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  • David Julius & Allan I. Basbaum, 2001. "Molecular mechanisms of nociception," Nature, Nature, vol. 413(6852), pages 203-210, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:413:y:2001:i:6852:d:10.1038_35093019
    DOI: 10.1038/35093019
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