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Research progress of MRI in pain and periaqueductal grey
CHEN You  HE Lai-chang  TAN Yong-ming 

DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.08.013.


[Abstract] The inhibition and promotion mechanism of pain can precisely adjust the excitability of the neural circuit involved in the overall pain experience, and the disorders of the pain in the circuit can lead to chronic pain. The periaqueductal gray (PAG) which involved in both ascending and descending pain modulation systems is an important node in the descending pain modulatory system (DPMS). This article summarizes the research progress of pain-related PAG magnetic resonance imaging.
[Keywords] Periaqueductal gray；Pain；Descending pain modulatory system；Magnetic resonance imaging

CHEN You Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China

HE Lai-chang* Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China

TAN Yong-ming Department of Radiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, China

*Corresponding to: He LC, E-mail: laichang_he@163.com

Conflicts of interest   None.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS  This work was part of National Natural Science Foundation of China No.81460329 Project Supported by Natural Science Foundation of Jiangxi Province No.2013ZBAB205007
Received  2018-05-11
Accepted  2018-06-08
DOI: 10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.08.013
DOI:10.12015/issn.1674-8034.2018.08.013.

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