Heritability of responses to painful stimuli in women: A classical twin study

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3041-3049

  Norbury, Timothy A ^a   MacGregor, Alex J ^a   Urwin, Jane ^a   Spector, Tim D ^a   McMahon, Stephen B ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Genetics; Human pain models; Hyperalgesia; Nociception

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGED; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE REGISTRY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEAT; HEREDITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; IONTOPHORESIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACIDS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ADULT; AGED; BURNS; BURNS, CHEMICAL; FEMALE; HEAT; HISTAMINE; HUMANS; IONTOPHORESIS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SKIN;

EID: 35648960241     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm233     Document Type: Article

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