Effect of acute and chronic administration of caffeine on pain-like behaviors in rats with partial sciatic nerve injury

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 402, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 164-166

  Wu, Wei Ping ^a   Hao, Jing Xia ^a   Fredholm, Bertil B ^b   Wiesenfeld Hallin, Zsuzsanna ^a   Xu, Xiao Jun ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Antinociception; Neuropathy

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; DRINKING WATER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646759949     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.03.065     Document Type: Article

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