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What are the 3 types of pain?

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nociceptive pain; inflammatory and pathological

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What are nociceptors?

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specific peripheral primary sensory afferent neurones normally activated preferentially by intense noxious stimuli

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Where are the cell bodies of nociceptors located?

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dorsal root ganglia and trigeminal ganglia

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What type of fibre are nociceptors?

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Ad and C

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What is the difference between the type of pain that Ad and C fibres carry?

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Ad mediate first or fast pain whereas C fibres mediate slow pain

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What type of sensations is first pain?

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stabbing; pricking

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What type of sensation is slow pain?

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bruning; throbbing; cramping; aching

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What type of stimuli do nociceptive Ad fibres respond to?

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noxious mechanical and thermal stimuli

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What ytpe of stimuli do nociceptive C fibres respond to?

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all noxious stimuli- polymodal

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What is frequency coding?

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rate of AP discharge correlates with the intensity of the applied stimulus

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What are the types of nociceptive Ad fibres?

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type 1 (HTM) and type 2

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What is the difference between the thresholds of heat required to activate type 1 and type 2 Ad fibres?

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type 1- >53 whereas type 2 43-47

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What type of fast pain do type 1 fibres mediate?

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mechanical

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What type of fast pain do type 2 fibres mediate?

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heat

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What happens to type 1 Ad fibres in response to prolonged stimuli?

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show sensitisation

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What are the types of C fibre?

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C-MH; C-M; C-H and CMiHi

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What are the features of C-MH fibres?

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shows sensitisation to repeated stimuli and contributes to location of stimulus

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What are the features of C-H fibres?

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mediates heat hyperalgesia; acquires sensitivity to mechanical stimuli in inflammation

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What are C-MiHi fibres?

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normally insensitive to both mechanical and heat stimuli but acquires sensitivity through inflam mediators

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How does the peripheral terminal of nociceptors influence local tissue environment?

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releases molecules eg substance P and CGRP

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What does substance P do?

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vasodilation and extravasation of plasam proteins

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What is CGRP?

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calcitonin gene related peptide- vasodilation

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Where do nociceptors terminate in the spinal cord?

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laminae of Rexed

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What do C and Ad fibres synapse with in the spinal cord?

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nociceptive specific cells

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What type of fibre do wide dynamic range neurones receive input from?
Ab; Ad and C
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Where are the soma of the sensory neurones of the trigeminal system located?
trigeminal sesnory ganglion
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What modality synapses in the chief sensory nucleus?
general tactile stimuli
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What modality synapses in the spinal nucleus?
pain and temperature
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How do peptides participate in neurotransmission?
cause a slow and prolonged epsp facilitating activation of NMDA receptors by relieving voltage-dependent blokc by magnesium
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When do peptides mainly take part in neurotransmission?
during high frequency stimulation
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Whta are the 2 types of sensisation of the nociceptive pathway following tissue damage?
peripheral and central
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What mediates peripheral sensitisation?
nociceptors at the site of injury/tissue inflam
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How does peripheral sensitisation cause primary hyperalgesia?
via reduced threshold and amplified response
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What type of stimuli is peripheral sensitisation mainly involved in?
heat, to lesser extent mechanical
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What mediates central sensitisation?
an increase in CNS neurone activity and properties
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How does central sensitisation cause secondary hyperalgesia and allodynia?
recruitment of novel inputs to nociceptive pathways (eg Ab fibres) and abnormal processing of sensory input
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What type of stimuli is central sensisation mainly involved in ?
mechanical sensitivity
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How do visceral afferents from nociceptors reach the dorsal horn?
follow sympathetic pathways
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What are the two nociceptive tracts i nthe spinal cord?
spinothalamic and spinoreticular
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What type of pain does the spinothalamic tract carry?
fast fibre Ad pain and wide dynamic range
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What does pain perception require in the spinothalamic tract?
simultaneious firing in both the Ad fibres and wide dynamic range neurones
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What type of pain does the spinoreticular tract carry?
slow C-fibre pain
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Where does the SRT connect?
reticular nuclei in the brainstem eg periaqueductal grey
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What response to pain is the spinoreticular tract involved in?
autonomic respones to apin- arousal, emotional and fear
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Where does the Spinoreticular tract relay information to after the thalamus?
limbic areas of the forebrain (cingulate and insular cortices and amygdala)
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Where does the spinothalamic tract take pain signals after the thalamus?
primary sensorimotor cortices
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How can pain evoked by acitivty in nociceptors be reduced?
simulatneous activity in LTMs (Ab fibres)
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What is the gate control theory?
projection neurones to the spinothalamic tract receive inhibitory input from Ab and excitatroy input from C/Ad fibres- if both are Ab and Ad/C fibres are excited dont get pain
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What area of the dorsal horn does the gate control theory take place?
substantia gelaninosa
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What type of info does the ventral horn deal with ?
motor
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How does TENS work?
Ab fibres can be activated by high freq, low intensity electrical stimulation through the skin, reducing the pain felt
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What are thermoreceptors?
neurones specialised to respond to small changes in temperature

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