Mediators of Inflammation
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 648268, 18 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/648268
Neurovascular Unit in Chronic Pain
1Department of Neurological, Neuropsychological, Morphological and Movement Sciences, Section of Anatomy and Histology, University of Verona, Strada Le Grazie 8, 37134 Verona, Italy
2Department of Anatomy, Animal Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology, University of Bucharest, 050095 Bucharest, Romania
3IRCCS Centro Neurolesi “Bonino-Pulejo”, 98124 Messina, Italy
4Department of Life and Environmental Physics, “Horia Hulubei” National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 077125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
Received 14 March 2013; Accepted 8 May 2013
Academic Editor: Gila Moalem-Taylor
Copyright © 2013 Beatrice Mihaela Radu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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