Synaptic Plasticity in Pain

2. Changes in NK1 and Glutamate Receptors in Pain
Andrew J. Todd

3. Trophic Factors and Their Receptors in Pain Pathways
John V. Priestley

4. Fast Inhibitory Transmission of Pain in the Spinal Cord
Hanns Ulrich Zeilhofer, Robert Witschi, Torbjörn Johansson

5. Synaptic Transmission of Pain in the Developing Spinal Cord
Rachel A. Ingram, Mark L. Baccei, Maria Fitzgerald

6. BDNF and TrkB Mediated Mechanisms in the Spinal Cord
Rita Bardoni, Adalberto Merighi

7. Dorsal Horn Substance P and NK1 Receptors: Study of a Model System in Spinal Nociceptive Processing
Xiao-Ying Hua, Tony L. Yaksh

8. Opioidergic Transmission in the Dorsal Horn
Juan Carlos Marvizon

9. CGRP in Spinal Cord Pain Mechanisms
Volker Neugebauer

10. Long-Term Potentiation in Superficial Spinal Dorsal Horn: A Pain Amplifier
Ruth Drdla, Jürgen Sandkühler

11. Modulation of Long-Term Potentiation of Excitatory Synaptic Transmission in the Spinal Cord Dorsal Horn
M. Randić

12. Windup in the Spinal Cord
Stephen W. N. Thompson

13. Pain from the Arthritic Joint
Hans-Georg Schaible, Andrea Ebersberger

14. Spinal Mechanisms of Visceral Pain and Hyperalgesia
Fernando Cervero, Jennifer M. A. Laird

15. Descending Modulation of Pain
Lucy Bee, Anthony Dickenson

16. Cannabinoid Receptor Mediated Analgesia: Novel Targets for Chronic Pain States
Victoria Chapman, David Kendall, Devi Rani Sagar

17. Spinal Dynorphin and Neuropathic Pain
Josephine Lai, Ruizhong Wang, Frank Porreca

18. Microglia, Cytokines and Pain
E. D. Milligan, Ryan G. Soderquist, Melissa J. Mahoney

19. The Role of Astrocytes in the Modulation of Pain
Vivianne L. Tawfik, Joyce A. DeLeo

20. Spinal Cord Phospholipase A2 and Prostanoids in Pain Processing
Camilla I. Svensson

21. MAP Kinase and Cell Signaling in DRG Neurons and Spinal Microglia in Neuropathic Pain
Ru-Rong Ji

22. Microglia and Trophic Factors in Neuropathic Pain States
Simon Beggs

23. The Cathepsin S/Fractalkine Pair: New Players in Spinal Cord Neuropathic Pain Mechanisms
Anna K. Clark, Marzia Malcangio

Keywords: Biomedicine, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Neurology, Neurobiology, Pain Medicine, Neurosciences