Restraint reduces formalin-test pain but the effect is not influenced by lesions of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 299-305

  Fuchs, Perry N ^a   Melzack, Ronald ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0030157741     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0103     Document Type: Article

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