Joint Distraction Magnitude Is Associated With Different Behavioral Outcomes and Substance P Levels for Cervical Facet Joint Loading in the Rat

Journal of Pain

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 436-445

  Lee, Kathryn E ^a   Winkelstein, Beth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Facet; hyperalgesia; joint; neck; pain; substance P

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; JOINT INJURY; LOW BACK PAIN; MECHANICAL STRESS; NECK PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL GANGLION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FORELIMB; GANGLIA, SPINAL; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SHOULDER; SPINAL CORD; SUBSTANCE P; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 62649133815     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2008.11.009     Document Type: Article

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