Sciatic nerve section induces mechanical hyperalgesia in skin adjacent to the deafferented region in rats: Lack of correlation with autotomy behavior

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-67

  Kauppila, Timo ^a   Xu, Xiao Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autotomy; Hyperalgesia; Hypersensitivity; Saphenous nerve; Sciatic nerve

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOTOMY; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SAPHENOUS NERVE; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 0030582982     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12692-6     Document Type: Article

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