Sex-related differences in pain behaviors following three early life stress paradigms

Biology of Sex Differences

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Prusator, Dawn K ^a   Greenwood Van Meerveld, Beverley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early life stress; Irritable bowel syndrome; Rats; Sex differences; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975450774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20426410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13293-016-0082-x     Document Type: Article

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