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Why pain sometimes lingers

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Animals have nerves that can make a soft caress painful.

A once-mysterious neural pathway may have a crucial role in making injured areas overly sensitive to touch, a study in mice suggests.

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Buchen, L. Why pain sometimes lingers. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.1084

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