Exposure of the rat tail to ultraviolet a light produces sustained hyperalgesia to noxious thermal and mechanical challenges

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 152, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 267-273

  Themistocleous, Andreas ^a   Fick, Linda ^a   Plessis, Irné Du ^a   Mitchell, Bridget ^b   Mitchell, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Van Drimmelen Pathology Laboratory   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Hyperalgesia; Inflammation; Rat; Ultraviolet A light

Indexed keywords

ALGOMETER; ALUMINUM FOIL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RAT; TAIL; TAIL FLICK TEST; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL EXPOSURE; TIME; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HEAT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TAIL; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 33644765870     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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