Gender differences in rat neuropathic pain sensitivity is dependent on strain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 282, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 197-199

  Deleo, Joyce A ^a   Rutkowski, Maria D ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Holtzman rat; Mechanical allodynia; Neuropathic pain; Sex differences; Sprague Dawley rat; Von Frey filaments

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE TRANSECTION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL NERVE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0034708543     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)00880-6     Document Type: Article

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