title: What to call the amplification of nociceptive signals in the central nervous system that contribute to widespread pain?
authors.affiliation: FM Kirby Neurobiology Center, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
authors.forename: Clifford J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Woolf
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059333:Central Nervous System Sensitization / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009475:Neurons, Afferent / Q000502:physiology*; D009619:Nociceptors / Q000502:physiology*; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*
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