Molecular pain
By: Min Zhuo, editor.
Contributors: Zhuo, Min.
Publisher: Higher Education Press; Springer (distributor)
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Beijing, China
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780387752686; 9787040189544
Subjects: Pain -- Physiological aspects; Pain -- physiopathology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Genes, neurons and neurotransmission; title: Glutamate, excitatory transmission and pain; title: Neuropeptides, ATP, retrograde messengers and opioids; title: Inhibitory transmission and plasticity; title: Postsynaptic signaling and gene regulation; title: Peripheral nociceptor, amygdala and fear; title: Spinal plasticity, reorganization and chronic pain; title: Cortical plasticity, reorganization and amputation; title: Endogenous analgesia and other form of analgesia; title: Models for studying pain and searching for pain killers.