Experimental pain thresholds and plasma beta-endorphin levels during exercise

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 334-342

  Droste, Conrad ^a   Greenlee, Mark W ^b   Schreck, Martin ^a   Roskamm, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beta endorphin; Exercise; Experimental pain thresholds; Naloxone; Physical

Indexed keywords

BETA ENDORPHIN; CATECHOLAMINE; HYDROCORTISONE; NALOXONE; OPIATE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BETA-ENDORPHIN; BICYCLING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EPINEPHRINE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; NALOXONE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PAIN; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0026033710     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/00005768-199103000-00012     Document Type: Article

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