Microglia in neuropathic pain: cellular and molecular mechanisms and therapeutic potential

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 19, 138 (2018). doi:10.1038/nrn.2018.2 Authors: Kazuhide Inoue & Makoto Tsuda Acute nociceptive pain is a key defence system that enables the detection of danger signals that threaten homeostasis and survival. However, chronic pain (such as the neuropathic pain that occurs after peripheral nerve injury) is not simply a consequence of the continuity of acute nociceptive
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