Validation of an air-puff passive-avoidance paradigm for assessment of aversive learning and memory in rat models of chronic pain

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Moriarty, Orla ^a   Roche, Michelle ^a   McGuire, Brian E ^a   Finn, David P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Conditioned aversion; Learning; Memory; Passive avoidance

Indexed keywords

FREUND ADJUVANT; SCOPOLAMINE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; LEARNING; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MEMORY; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL NERVE;

AIR; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MUSCARINIC ANTAGONISTS; NEURALGIA; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE;

EID: 82055194415     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2011.10.024     Document Type: Article

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