Gender differences in electrical pain threshold responses to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS)

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 375, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 75-80

  Lund, Iréne ^a   Lundeberg, Thomas ^b   Kowalski, Jan ^a   Svensson, Elisabeth ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electrical thresholds; Gender; Pain threshold; TENS

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENDER; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NOCICEPTORS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 12744259355     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.10.068     Document Type: Article

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