Intact female rats are more susceptible to the development of tactile allodynia than ovariectomized female rats following partial sciatic nerve ligation (PSNL)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 203, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-40

  Coyle, Dennis E ^a   Sehlhorst, C Susan ^a   Behbehani, Michael M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Neuropathic pain; Ovariectomized; Peripheral nerve injury

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PROGESTERONE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030025755     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(95)12259-1     Document Type: Article

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