Abstract
This chapter discusses how cancer pain is generated and how the sensory information it initiates is processed as it moves from sense organ to the cerebral cortex under a constantly changing molecular architecture. Topics covered include primary afferent sensory neurons, tumour properties that excite nociceptors, tumour-induced release of protons and acidosis, tumor-induced distension and destruction of sensory fibers, and central sensitization in cancer pain.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | The Neurobiology of Pain |
| Subtitle of host publication | (Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780191723650 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780198515616 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2010 |
Keywords
- Cancer pain
- Nociceptors
- Tumor cells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Neuroscience
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