Lesion of the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Eliminates the Aversiveness of Spontaneous Neuropathic Pain Following Partial or Complete Axotomy

Neuropathic pain is often “spontaneous” or “stimulus-independent.” Such pain may result from spontaneous discharge in primary afferent nociceptors in injured peripheral nerves. However, whether axotomized primary afferent nociceptors give rise to pain is unclear. The rostral anterior cingulate corte...

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Main Authors: Qu, Chaoling, King, Tamara, Okun, Alec, Lai, Josephine, Fields, Howard L., Porreca, Frank
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3389793/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21474245
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2011.03.002
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