The influence of anaesthesia on diffuse noxious inhibitory controls in the rat

In healthy animals and humans, a test stimulus will attenuate to a noxious conditioning stimulus applied elsewhere on the body; a phenomenon termed diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC). This endogenous pain inhibitory system can be used to study impairments in descending pain modulation, which...

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Main Author: White, Kate
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/64443/