A noninvasive method for studying quantitatively heat-evoked nocifensive hindlimb withdrawal reflexes in lightly anesthetized rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 389-392

  Hämäläinen, Minna M ^a   Kauppila, Timo ^a   Taira, Tomi ^a   Pertovaara, Antti ^a  

^a POB 9 ^*

Author keywords

Morphine; Nociceptive reflex; Noxious heat; Quantitative reflex measurement

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAMSTRING; HINDLIMB; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TECHNIQUE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0342961073     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02078-0     Document Type: Article

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