Weight bearing of the limb as a confounding factor in assessment of mechanical allodynia in the rat

Pain

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-59

  Kauppila, Timo ^a,b   Kontinen, Vesa K ^a   Pertovaara, Antti ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Hindlimb withdrawal threshold; Nocifensive reflex response; Tactile allodynia

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HINDLIMB; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE LIGATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL NERVE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TIBIAL NERVE; WEIGHT BEARING; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; CARRAGEENAN; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONSTRICTION; EVALUATION STUDIES; HINDLIMB; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEURALGIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; REFLEX; SPINAL NERVES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0031907351     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(97)00143-7     Document Type: Article

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