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National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 21(98), p. 11845-11846, 2001

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.211373398

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Mechanisms of pain

Journal article published in 2001 by Cheryl L. Stucky, Michael S. Gold ORCID, Xu Zhang
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Persistent or chronic pain is the primary reason people seek medical care, yet current therapies are either inadequate for certain types of pain or cause intolerable side effects. Recently, pain neurobiologists have identified a number of cellular and molecular processes that lead to the initiation and maintenance of pain. Understanding these underlying mechanisms has given significant promise for the development of more effective, more specific pain therapies in the near future.