Pregabalin modulation of spinal and brainstem visceral nociceptive processing

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2312-2322

  Sikandar, Shafaq ^a   Dickenson, Anthony H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal distension (CRD); Rostral ventromedial medulla (RVM); State dependent actions; Visceromotor response (VMR)

Indexed keywords

PREGABALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; COLON DILATATION; COLORECTAL DISTENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; VISCERAL PAIN; VISCEROMOTOR RESPONSE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEURALGIA; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 80053192294     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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