Sensory nerve

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• The sural sensory nerve is usually spared in Guillain-Barre syndrome.
• Injury or entrapment of the deep peroneal sensory nerve is part of the differential diagnosis; however, no technique studying the deep peroneal sensory conduction velocity has been described.
• A sensory nerve is one that carries sensation to the nerve roots and spinal cord.
• In adults, for example, MRC researcher Clifford Woolf has shown that when a sensory nerve is damaged or chronically inflamed, the nociceptive mechanisms change and the nervous system no longer relies on signals from the site of the injury to trigger pain.
• When the sensory nerve is stimulated by something like a pin-prick, the nerve cell becomes excited and sends an electrical message down its long fiber (called an axon) toward the spinal cord.

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