What do experimental pain models tell us about aging and clinical pain?

Pain Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 475-477

  Gagliese, Lucia ^a,b,c,d  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ANXIETY; CANCER; CHRONIC PAIN; EDITORIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESEARCH ETHICS; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD;

EID: 34548219408     PISSN: 15262375     EISSN: 15264637     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00360.x     Document Type: Editorial

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