Changes in pain threshold and lumbar spinal cord immediate-early gene expression induced by paced and nonpaced mating in female rats

Brain Research

Volumn 861, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-36

  Lee, Jeung Woon ^a   Erskine, Mary S ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; c fos; Egr 1; Spinal cord; Tail flick; Vaginocervical stimulation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERALGESIA; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MATING; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE PROTEIN 1; FEMALE; GENES, FOS; GENES, IMMEDIATE-EARLY; IMMEDIATE-EARLY PROTEINS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0342657087     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(00)01957-0     Document Type: Article

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