Sodium Channels, Pain, and Analgesia

Sodium channels confer excitability on neurons in nociceptive pathways and exhibit neuronal tissue specific and injury regulated expression. This volume provides recent insights into the control of expression, functioning and membrane trafficking of nervo

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Sodium Channels, Pain, and Analgesia

Kevin Coward Mark D. Baker Editors

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Editors Kevin Coward Department of Pharmacology University of Oxford Mansfield Road Oxford OX1 3QT UK

Mark D. Baker Molecular Nociception Group Department of Biology Medawar Building University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sodium channels, pain, and analgesia / Kevin Coward, Mark D. Baker, editors. p. ; cm. -- (Progress in inflammation research) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 3-7643-7062-9 (alk. paper) 1. Pain. 2. Sodium channels. 3. Analgesics. I. Coward, Kevin, 1969– II. Baker, Mark D., 1960III. PIR (Series) RB127.S64 2005 616’.0472--dc22 2005048132 Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.ddb.de

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