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Postsurgical tactile-evoked pain: a role for brain-derived neurotrophic factor-tropomyosin receptor kinase B-dependent novel tactile corpuscles.
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Wilson K, Sze Y, Regan A, Zhu C, Mazur K, Velichkova AN, Torsney CAbstract
Millions of people undergo surgical procedures each year with many developing postsurgical pain. Dynamic allodynia can arise when, for example, clothing brushing close to the surgical site elicits pain. The allodynia circuits that enable crosstalk between afferent tactile inputs and central pain circuits have been studied, but the peripheral tactile drive has not been explored.