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Volume 151, Issue 2 , Pages 460-466 , November 2010

Neuropathic pain-like alterations in muscle nociceptor function associated with vibration-induced muscle pain

  • Xiaojie Chen

      Affiliations

    • Department Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • ,
  • Paul G. Green

      Affiliations

    • Department Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • ,
  • Jon D. Levine

      Affiliations

    • Department Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Medicine and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. Tel.: +1 415 476 5108; fax: +1 415 476 6305.

Received 21 April 2010 ,Revised 3 August 2010 ,Accepted 4 August 2010.

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