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The organizational and activational effects of sex hormones on tactile and thermal hypersensitivity following lumbar nerve root injury in male and female rats

  • Michael L. LaCroix-Fralish

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    • Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    • ,
  • Vivianne L. Tawfik

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    • Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    • ,
  • Joyce A. DeLeo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    • Neuroscience Center at Dartmouth, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, HB 7125, One Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA. Tel.: +1 603 650 6204.

Received 20 May 2004 ,Revised 4 November 2004 ,Accepted 22 November 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2004.12.006

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