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dorsal horn

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dorsal horn

dorsal horn
Etymology: L, dorsalis, back; AS, horn


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In the study, the researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan the spinal cords of 15 healthy volunteers, focussing on an area called the dorsal horn, which transmits pain signals coming up through the spinal cord into the pain-related areas in the brain.
In a article published in Science, Falk Eippert and colleagues from the University Medical Centre, Hamburg, found those who believed they had received pain relief experienced a dampening of the pain signalling in a region of the spinal cord, the dorsal horn.
Slow pain is however transmitted by the slower C fibers to lamina II and III or dorsal horns also known as substantia gelatinosa and neurons take off and join fast pain pathways and move upwards along the anterolateral pathway.
 
 
 
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