Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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2723952 | The Journal of Pain | 2006 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Anxiety is thought to influence pain experience in an opposing manner depending on nociception originates in cutaneous or deep somatic/visceral tissues. The present formalin-induced nociceptive test may help to predict more reliably the pain-killing effect of new pharmacologic strategies, with classical or nonclassical mechanisms, for the treatment of clinically relevant pains, which are generally originated in deep structures.
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Authors
Maria Alcina Martins, Lúcia de Castro Bastos, Carlos Rogério Tonussi,