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Medicina Fluminensis : Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 48 No. 3, 2012.

Review article

Pathophysiology of pain pathway

Dean Girotto ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Goran Bajek ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Darko Ledić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Branislav Stanković ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Duje Vukas ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Barbara Kolbah ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Hrvoje Šimić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Ana Gavranić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka
Zlatko Kolić ; Klinika za neurokirurgiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka

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Abstract

Pain is an uncomfortable personal experience which is hard to define. It is percieved and coped with differently by each of us. According to the definition of the International association for the study of pain: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage”. This article discusses in short the patophysiology and the perception of pain in the peripheral and central nervous systems.

Keywords

nociception; nociceptor; pain; perception of pain; transmission of pain stimuli

Hrčak ID:

86938

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/86938

Publication date:

3.9.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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