Excitotoxic spinal cord injury: Behavioral and morphological characteristics of a central pain model

Pain

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 141-155

  Yezierski, R P ^a,b   Liu, S ^a   Ruenes, G L ^a   Kajander, K J ^c   Brewer, K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Central pain; Excitotoxicity; Non N methyl D aspartate; Quisqualic acid; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

QUISQUALIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; NEUROPATHY; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; HEAT; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; QUISQUALIC ACID; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES;

EID: 0031780474     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00216-9     Document Type: Article

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