Cani, Valentina and Mazzarello, Paolo (2015) Golgi and Ranvier: from the black reaction to a theory of referred pain. Functional Neurology, 30 (1). pp. 73-77. ISSN 1971-3274
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Abstract
In his brief report on the structure of the gray matter of the central nervous system (1873), in which he described the “black reaction”, Golgi noted the ramifications of the axon. This discovery prompted the French histologist Louis Antoine Ranvier, one of the first to try the black reaction outside Italy, to propose an ingenious theory of referred pain in his Traité technique d’histologie. Ranvier suggested that the nerve fibers originating from the irritated area and those coming from the region to which the sensation is referred converge on the same axon and thus the same cell body, causing the spatial dislocation of sensation. This theory of referred pain is a powerful example of the extraordinary clinical-physiological impact of the first of Golgi’s neurocytological discoveries.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Black reaction, Camillo Golgi, Louis Ranvier, ramified axon, referred pain |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Sep 2019 12:38 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2019 12:38 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/12542 |
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