The Influence of Sex and Ovarian Hormones on Temporomandibular Joint Nociception in Rats

Journal of Pain

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 630-638

  Fischer, Luana ^a   Torres Chávez, Karla E ^a   Clemente Napimoga, Juliana T ^a   Jorge, Dany ^a   Arsati, Franco ^a   de Arruda Veiga, Maria Cecília F ^a   Tambeli, Claudia H ^a  

^a Faculty of Odontology of Piracicaba   (Brazil)

Author keywords

estrogen; Formalin; glutamate; progesterone; sex differences; temporomandibular joint pain

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; MALE; MYOFASCIAL PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIESTRUS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTICULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; OVARIECTOMY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROESTRUS; PROGESTERONE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT DISORDERS;

EID: 45549109784     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2008.02.006     Document Type: Article

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