Illuminating the Gap: Neuronal Cross-Talk within Sensory Ganglia and Persistent Pain.
How primary sensory neurons contribute to persistent pain remains unclear. A novel imaging technique introduced here by Kim et al. (2016) in this issue of Neuron to view the activities of large numbers of ganglion neurons simultaneously analyzes the importance of neuronal cross-talk in pain transmission.
Department of Neurobiology and Pittsburgh Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: rpseal@pitt.edu.
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D017950:Ganglia, Sensory; D005727:Ganglia, Spinal; D009474:Neurons; D009475:Neurons, Afferent; D010146:Pain