Microneurographic findings of relevance to pain in patients with erythromelalgia and patients with diabetic neuropathy
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Microneurographic findings of relevance to pain in patients with erythromelalgia and patients with diabetic neuropathy
Abstract
Mechanisms responsible for neuropathic pain are still unclear. By using microneurography we have been able to record from single C-nociceptive and sympathetic fibers in patients and attempted to uncover possible abnormal functional properties of these fibers of relevance for pain. In two previously published studies conducted on patients with erythromelalgia and patients with diabetic neuropathy, some of the major findings were: (1) spontaneous activity in nociceptive fibers, (2) sensitization of mechano-insensitive C-fibers, and (3) an altered distribution of C-afferent nerve fibers with a reversal of the proportion of the two main subtypes of C-nociceptive fibers, indicating a loss of function of polymodal nociceptors. Although some degree of spontaneous activity and sensitization also was found in patients without pain, these mechanisms may still be of importance for the development and maintenance of neuropathic pain. A change in the distribution of C-nociceptive fibers in the skin as shown in the patients with diabetic neuropathy may help to reveal mechanisms responsible for small-fiber dysfunction.
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