Article
Three distinct categories of time course of pain produced by oral capsaicin.
The journal of pain - 1 May 2005
Balaban Carey D, McBurney Donald H, Affeltranger Mark A
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Humans vary in oral pain tolerance. Our earlier studies noted that the responses of subjects show 1 of 3 qualitative response patterns to a single oral capsaicin concentration, which we termed a tonic pattern (level detection response), a phasic pattern (change detection response), and an integrator pattern (cumulative irritation) response. These patterns were modeled quantitatively as the sum of 3...
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