GCH1-polymorphism and pain sensitivity among women with provoked vestibulodynia

Molecular Pain

Volumn 8, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Heddini, Ulrika ^a   Bohm Starke, Nina ^a   Grönbladh, Alfhild ^b   Nyberg, Fred ^b   Nilsson, Kent W ^b   Johannesson, Ulrika ^a  

^a DANDERYD HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

GCH1; Gene; Hormonal contraceptives; Pain; Polymorphism; Provoked vestibulodynia; SNP

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE I;

ADULT; ARM PAIN; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE CYCLOHYDROLASE 1 GENE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NOCICEPTION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOKED VESTIBULODYNIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GTP CYCLOHYDROLASE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VULVODYNIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866025261     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17448069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-8069-8-68     Document Type: Article

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