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The effects of preferential A- and C-fibre blocks and T-type calcium channel antagonist on detection of low-force monofilaments in healthy human participants

BACKGROUND: A myriad of studies have argued that tactile sensibility is underpinned exclusively by large myelinated mechanoreceptors. However, the functional significance of their slow-conducting counterparts, termed C-low threshold mechanoreceptors (C-LTMRs), remains largely unexplored. We recently...

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Autores principales: Nagi, Saad S., Dunn, James S., Birznieks, Ingvars, Vickery, Richard M., Mahns, David A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4535530/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26268809
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12868-015-0190-2