Acute and chronic ethanol exacerbates formalin pain in neonatal rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 367, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 29-33

  Shumilla, Jennifer A ^a   Sweitzer, Sarah M ^a,b   Kendig, Joan J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethanol; Formalin; Mechanical allodynia; Neonatal rats; Pain

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; FORMALDEHYDE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ETHANOL; FORMALDEHYDE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043181264     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2004.05.079     Document Type: Article

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