The Role of Cannabinoid Receptors in the Descending Modulation of Pain

• Glavni autori: Francesco Rossi (Autor), Sabatino Maione (Autor), Vito de Novellis (Autor), Livio Luongo (Autor), Enza Palazzo (Autor)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: MDPI AG, 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Teme: article
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The endogenous antinociceptive descending pathway represents a circuitry of the supraspinal central nervous system whose task is to counteract pain. It includes the periaqueductal grey (PAG)-rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM)-dorsal horn (DH) axis, which is the best characterized pain modulation sys...