Do genetic predictors of pain sensitivity associate with persistent widespread pain?

Molecular Pain

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Holliday, Kate L ^a   Nicholl, Barbara I ^a   Macfarlane, Gary J ^b   Thomson, Wendy ^a   Davies, Kelly A ^a   McBeth, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPRM1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU;

EID: 75349090421     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-5-56     Document Type: Article

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