Effect of a NO donor - glyceryl trinitrate - on nociceptive thresholds in man;Effekten af nitrogenoxiddonoren glyceryltrinitrat pa humane smertetaerskler for tryk

Ugeskrift for Laeger

Volumn 159, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 4645-4648

  Thomsen, Lars Lykke ^a,b   Brennum, Jannick ^a   Iversen, Helle Klingenberg ^a   Olesen, Jes ^a  

^a GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; NITRIC OXIDE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 0030858702     PISSN: 00415782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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