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nociceptor
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nociceptor [′nō·sə‚sep·tər]
(physiology)
A sensory nerve ending that is particularly sensitive to noxious stimuli such as chemical changes in surrounding tissue evoked by injury.


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Conventional wisdom was that the nociceptive neurons in the skin can't tell the difference between heat and mechanical pain, like a pin prick.
Nociceptive processing after SCI is apparently more complicated; inhibition of below-level spinal nociceptive neurons by 5-HT has been found to be reversed by both 5-HT1A and 5-HT3 antagonists [57], but spinal 5-HT3 receptors have also been shown to facilitate at-level allodynia after SCI [58-59].
However, it was known that constriction induced by acetic acid was considered to be a non-selective anti-nociceptive model, since acetic acid indirectly induced the release of endogenous mediators stimulated the nociceptive neurons that were sensitive to non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) (Sanchez-Mateo et al.
 
 
 
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