From basic pain mechanisms to headache /
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| Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. |
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| Description: | xiii, 270 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Frontiers in headache research ; v. 14 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6096770 |
Table of Contents:
- Section I. Molecular Mechanisms in Inflammatory Pain
- 1. Somatostatin and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptors in primary afferent neurons
- 2. The capsaicin receptor controls sensitivity and stimulated neuropeptide release in rodent meninges
- 3. Cytokines in inflammatory pain
- 4. Discussion summary: Molecular mechanisms in inflammatory pain
- Section II. Neurobiology of Neuropathic Pain
- 5. Mechanisms of inflammatory hyperalgesia
- 6. Translation of symptoms and signs into mechanisms in neuropathic pain
- 7. Neuropathic pain in the orofacial area
- 8. Discussion summary: Neurobiology of neuropathic pain
- Section III. The Trigeminal System and Pain
- 9. Injury induced neuroplastic changes in trigeminal brainstem subnucleus caudalis: Trigeminal central sensitisation
- 10. Vascular and neuronal mechanisms related to the trigeminovascular system
- 11. Pathophysiological considerations in trigeminal neuralgia
- 12. Parasympathetic activation in experimental trigeminal pain
- 13. Trigeminovascular activation in cervicogenic headache
- 14. Hypertension-associated hypalgesia: an important mechanism in headache and other pains?
- 15. Central projections of sensory innervation of the rat superior sagittal sinus
- 16. Discussion summary: the trigeminal system and pain
- Section IV. Allodynia and Hyperalgesia
- 17. Mechanisms of cutaneous hyperalgesia
- 18. Allodynia as a manifestation of migraine and other headaches
- 19. Muscular hyperalgesia in the head and orofacial area
- 20. Evidence for generalized muscular and cutaneous hyperalgesia in patients with chronic tension-type headache
- 21. Migrainous allodynia or triptan-induced allodynia?
- 22. Migraine facilitates high frequency of tension-type headache
- 23. Clinical assessment of hyperalgesia and allodynia in episodic migraine versus chronic migraine interictally and ictally
- 24. Discussion summary: Allodynia and hyperalgesia
- Section V. Modulation of Pain
- 25. Mechanisms of pain facilitation systems: implications for medication overuse headache
- 26. Brainstem mechanisms of ongoing pain
- 27. How the brain talks to the spinal cord
- 28. Eletriptan in migraine: is pain-free response correlated with pain severity or time from headache onset to dosing?
- 29. Efficacy of eletriptan in improving functional impairment in migraine: results using a multidimensional functional and work productivity battery
- 30. CNS adverse events in patients treated with triptans: side effect or symptom?
