Interactions between contact and chemosensory mechanisms in pain modulation in 10-day-old rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 147-154

  Blass, Elliott M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; HYPOALGESIA; LATENT PERIOD; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; RAT; SUCKLING; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; ATTENTION; CHEMORECEPTORS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; MALE; MECHANORECEPTORS; NOCICEPTORS; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; REACTION TIME; SUCKING BEHAVIOR; TOUCH;

EID: 0031035342     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.111.1.147     Document Type: Article

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