Sodium Channels, Pain, and Analgesia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Parnham, Michael J. (Editor), Coward, Kevin (Editor), Baker, Mark D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2005.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Neurosciences.; Pharmacology.; Pain medicine.; Cell biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pain Medicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Cell Biology.

Sodium channels confer excitability on neurons in nociceptive pathways and exhibit neuronal tissue specific and injury regulated expression. This volume provides recent insights into the control of expression, functioning and membrane trafficking of nervous system sodium channels and reviews why sod...