Optimal scoring strategies and weights for the formalin test in rats

Pain

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-58

  Watson, G Stennis ^a   Sufka, Kenneth J ^a   Coderre, Terence J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

analgesia; correlation; formalin test; inflammation; methodology; multiple regression; nociception; pain measurement; taxonomy; validation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BRADYKININ ANTAGONIST; FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFLAMMATION; LABORATORY TEST; METHODOLOGY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAXONOMY;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRADYKININ; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030935850     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(96)03299-X     Document Type: Article

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