Lumbar Sympathectomy Attenuates Cold Allodynia But Not Mechanical Allodynia and Hyperalgesia in Rats With Spared Nerve Injury

Journal of Pain

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 931-937

  Zhao, Chengshui ^a   Chen, Lun ^b   Tao, Yuan Xiang ^a   Tall, Jill M ^a   Borzan, Jasenka ^a   Ringkamp, Matthias ^b   Meyer, Richard A ^b,c   Raja, Srinivasa N ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuropathic pain; spared nerve injury; sympathectomy

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; LUMBAR SYMPATHECTOMY; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NERVE INJURY; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PAW EDEMA; PERONEUS NERVE; RAT; SURAL NERVE; TIBIAL NERVE; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSELS; COLD; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLYOXYLATES; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NERVE FIBERS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NEUROPATHY; SYMPATHECTOMY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36348929788     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2007.06.008     Document Type: Article

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