Cytokines and Pain
Within the past few years, it has become recognized that the immune system communicates to the brain. Substances released from activated immune cells (cytokines) stimulate peripheral nerves, thereby signaling the brain and spinal cord that infection/inflammation has occurred. Additionally, periphera...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser
1999, 1999
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1999 |
| Series: | Progress in Inflammation Research
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Overview of inflammatory cytokines and their role in pain
- Evolutionary perspectives of cytokines in pain
- Illness-induced hyperalgesia: Mediators, mechanisms and implications
- Hyperalgesia from subcutaneous cytokines
- Cytokine-nerve growth factor interactions in inflammatory hyperalgesia
- Hyperalgesic actions of cytokines on peripheral nerves
- Proinflammatory cytokines and glial cells: Their role in neuropathic pain
- Brain cytokines and pain
- Interleukin-1 and tumor necrosis factor: Rheumatoid arthritis and pain