The impact of prenatal stress on basal nociception and evoked responses to tail-docking and inflammatory challenge in juvenile pigs

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 728-737

  Sandercock, Dale A ^a   Gibson, Ian F ^a   Rutherford, Kenneth M D ^b   Donald, Ramona D ^b   Lawrence, Alistair B ^b   Brash, Harry M ^c   Scott, E Marian ^a   Nolan, Andrea M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Hyperalgesia; Nociceptive processing; Pig; Prenatal stress; Tail docking

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; CARRAGEENAN;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; FOOT; GILT (SWINE); HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PIGLET; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TAIL; TAIL DOCKING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CARRAGEENAN; COLD TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWINE; TAIL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051603361     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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