Rodent functional and anatomical imaging of pain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 520, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 131-139

  Thompson, Scott J ^a,b   Bushnell, M Catherine ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Imaging; MRI; Pain; PET; Preclinical; Rodent

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; CHLORALOSE; FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OPIATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; TRACER;

ANALGESIA; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC PAIN; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTRONICS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAY MATTER; IMAGE PROCESSING; NEUROIMAGING; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS; THICKNESS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICE; NEUROIMAGING; PAIN; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RATS;

EID: 84862308267     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.03.015     Document Type: Review

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