Medial frontal cortex lesions selectively attenuate the hot plate response: Possible nocifensive apraxia in the rat

Pain

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Pastoriza, Laura N ^b   Morrow, Thomas J ^a,b   Casey, Kenneth L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cingulate cortex; Formalin test; Frontal cortex; Hot plate test; Rat; Tail flick test

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTOLOGY; HOT PLATE TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST;

EID: 0030066609     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(95)00070-4     Document Type: Article

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