Cytokines and Pain

ISBN-13: 9783764358495 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 232 str.

Linda R. Watkins; Steven F. Maier;Watkins

Opis

Aims to examine immune-to-brain communication from the viewpoint of its effect on pain processing. Suitable for basic scientists and health care providers, this book contains chapters that focus on understanding how cytokines modulate pain.

Spis treści

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.