Basolateral Amygdala Lesion Inhibits the Development of Pain Chronicity in Neuropathic Pain Rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Li, Zheng ^a   Wang, Jing ^b   Chen, Lin ^a   Zhang, Meng ^a   Wan, You ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMOTIONALITY; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; RAT;

EID: 84881098761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070921     Document Type: Article

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