Excitatory and inhibitory pain mechanisms during the menstrual cycle in healthy women

Pain

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 47-55

  Tousignant Laflamme, Yannick ^a   Marchand, Serge ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

DNIC; Pain modulation; Pain perception; Sex differences; Sex hormones

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUTEAL PHASE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OVULATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70349785550     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.018     Document Type: Article

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