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hyperexcitability

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hyperexcitability
excessive mental and physical activity.


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Our recent work has shown that thoracic SCI causes microglial cells to activate at multiple levels along the sensory neuraxis and to contribute to the maintenance, in real time, of hyperexcitability of dorsal horn and thalamic somatosensory neurons, which leads to chronic pain [10,12-13].
Although a bilateral loss of elbow extension occursin some individuals with whiplash and may indicate central hyperexcitability as opposed to nerve tissue mechanosensitivity (Sterling & Pedler 2008).
Stephen Levine propose a novel mechanism for asthma in a 2006 article in Medical Hypotheses entitled, "Bronchial Epilepsy or Broncho-Pulmonary Hyperexcitability as a Model of Asthma Pathogenesis.
 
 
 
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