Ahmed Negm

Sensory plasticity of dorsal horn silent neurons as a critical mechanism for neuropathic pain

The spinal cord dorsal horn (DH) integrates sensory processing but undergoes critical plasticity following nerve injury, leading to mechanical allodynia, or “touch-evoked pain”. It has been proposed that after nerve injury, innocuous sensory neurons gain access to nociceptive-specific (NS) circuits in the DH due to alt...