A novel animal model of graded neuropathic pain: Utility to investigate mechanisms of population heterogeneity

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 47-53

  Grace, Peter M ^a   Hutchinson, Mark R ^a   Manavis, Jim ^b   Somogyi, Andrew A ^a   Rolan, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL AND VETERINARY SCIENCE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Below level pain; Chronic constriction injury; Contralateral pain; Glia; Mirror image pain

Indexed keywords

CD11B ANTIGEN;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GLIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYPERALGESIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE; SUTURES;

EID: 77957686853     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2010.08.025     Document Type: Article

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