Intracutaneous injections of platelets cause acute pain and protracted hyperalgesia

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 226, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 171-174

  Schmelz, M ^a   Osiander, G ^a   Blunk, J ^a   Ringkamp, M ^a   Reeh, P W ^a   Handwerker, H O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

hyperalgesia; inflammation; pain; thrombocyte

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD PLATELETS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; PAIN; REFERENCE VALUES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031009149     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(97)00269-3     Document Type: Article

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