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Cerebral potentials evoked by noxious CO2 laser stimuli in man have been referred to nociceptive Aδ units. This paper shows 1) that ultra short (5–50 ms) high power (≤ 50 W) CO2 laser skin stimuli are able to activate nociceptive C units in man, and 2) that these C nociceptors have to be assumed to terminate in the very superficial skin layer (≤300 μm depth).
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Bromm, B., Treede, RD. CO2 laser radiant heat pulses activate C nociceptors in man. Pflugers Arch. 399, 155–156 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00663913
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00663913