Treatment of a chronic allodynia-like response in spinally injured rats: Effects of systemically administered nitric oxide synthase inhibitors

Pain

Volumn 66, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 313-319

  Hao, Jing Xia ^a   Xu, Xiao Jun ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

7 nitro indazole; Allodynia; Analgesia; Blood pressure; L NAME; Nitric oxide; Pain; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE INHIBITOR;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0030221242     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03039-4     Document Type: Article

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