A painful factor

Carole Torsney () and Amy B. MacDermott ()
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Carole Torsney: Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University
Amy B. MacDermott: Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University

Nature, 2005, vol. 438, issue 7070, 923-924

Abstract: Peripheral nerve injury activates cells in the spinal cord called microglia. But how do such cells cause the ensuing chronic pain? It seems that they release a small protein that disrupts normal inhibition of pain signalling.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1038/438923a

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