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gate-control hypothesis(medicine)
control theory(encyclopedia)
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Niacin (health) and gate-control theory (medicine)


Niacin (health)


One of the B vitamins, niacin is an essential vitamin that is especiallyimportant for digestion and appetite, as well as tissue and nerve cells.





gate-control theory (medicine)


gate-control theory


A theory to explain the mechanism of pain; small fibre afferent stimuli, particularly pain, entering the substantia gelatinosa can be modulated by large fibre afferent stimuli and descending spinal pathways so that their transmission to ascending spinal pathways is blocked (gated).

Synonym: gate-control hypothesis.