Resumen de New culprits in chronic pain.
The article examines the role of glia in chronic pain and how taming them can alleviate pain that medication can not ease. Topics include an overview of what causes pain to persist after an injury has healed, how traditional pain medication, which targets neural cells directly, fails to silence abnormal pain messages from overstimulated neurons, and how glial cells, whose role involves the monitoring of healthy neuronal activity, can prolong the pain. INSETS: PAIN CIRCUITRY;TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING;Gila Oppose Opiates;QUIETING OVERACTIVE GLIA
