Artificially produced meteorological changes aggravate pain in adjuvant-induced arthritic rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 354, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 46-49

  Sato, Jun ^a   Aoyama, Morihiko ^a   Yamazaki, Masahiro ^a   Okumura, Satoshi ^a   Takahashi, Ken ^a   Funakubo, Megumi ^a   Mizumura, Kazue ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mechanical allodynia; Mechanical hyperalgesia; Monoarthritis; Rat; Rheumatic pain; Weather

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BEHAVIOR; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HINDLIMB; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; METEOROLOGY; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TARSAL JOINT; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

EID: 0346786363     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2003.09.057     Document Type: Article

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