The Role of Descending Pain Modulation in Chronic Primary Pain: Potential Application of Drugs Targeting Serotonergic System
Chronic primary pain (CPP) is a group of diseases with long-term pain and functional disorders but without structural or specific tissue pathologies. CPP is becoming a serious health problem in clinical practice due to the unknown cause of intractable pain and high cost of health care yet has not be...
Main Authors: | Zhuo-Ying Tao, Pei-Xing Wang, Si-Qi Wei, Richard J. Traub, Jin-Feng Li, Dong-Yuan Cao |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2019-01-01
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Series: | Neural Plasticity |
Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/1389296 |
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