Uterine inflammation as a noxious visceral stimulus: Behavioral characterization in the rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 246, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 73-76

  Wesselmann, Ursula ^a   Czakanski, Peter P ^a   Affaitati, Giannapia ^b   Giamberardino, Maria Adele ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Flat; Inflammation; Pain behavior; Pelvic pain; Referred muscle hyperalgesia; Uterus; Visceral nociception

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRITIS; HYPERALGESIA; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; INFLAMMATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSTARD PLANT; PAIN; PLANT EXTRACTS; PLANT OILS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; POSTURE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERINE DISEASES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0032562740     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(98)00234-1     Document Type: Article

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