Alleviation of chronic neuropathic pain by environmental enrichment in mice well after the establishment of chronic pain

Behavioral and Brain Functions

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Vachon, Pascal ^a   Millecamps, Magali ^b,c   Low, Lucie ^b,c   Thompsosn, Scott J ^b,c   Pailleux, Floriane ^a   Beaudry, Francis ^a   Bushnell, Catherine M ^b,c   Stone, Laura S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal model; Chronic neuropathic pain; Environmental enrichment; Environmental impoverishment; Spared nerve injury

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; ISOFLURANE; SUBSTANCE P;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HOT PLATE TEST; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAROD TEST; TAIL FLICK TEST;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC PAIN; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; NEURALGIA; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES;

EID: 84878635962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17449081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-9-22     Document Type: Article

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