Sex Differences in Thermal Pain Sensitivity and Sympathetic Reactivity for Two Strains of Rat

Journal of Pain

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 739-749

  Vierck, Charles J ^a,b   Acosta Rua, Antonio J ^a,b   Rossi, Heather L ^a,b   Neubert, John K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

operant escape; pain sensitivity; Sex differences; sympathetic activation; thermal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; RAT STRAIN; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; SYMPATHETIC TONE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COLD; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CONSCIOUSNESS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; HEAT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 47549115980     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2008.03.008     Document Type: Article

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