Local pain and spreading hyperalgesia induced by intramuscular injection of nerve growth factor are not reduced by local anesthesia of the muscle

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 240-247

  Gerber, Renate Karin Herren ^a   Nie, Hongling ^b   Arendt Nielsen, Lars ^b   Curatolo, Michele ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

diagnosis; hyperalgesia; local anesthesia; muscle pain; nerve growth factor

Indexed keywords

NERVE GROWTH FACTOR; PLACEBO; ROPIVACAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DELTOID MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOALGESIA; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MYALGIA; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SKIN PAIN; SKIN SENSITIVITY; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 79951677039     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0b013e3182048481     Document Type: Article

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