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Estrogen modulation of ovariectomy-induced hyperalgesia in adult mice.
Eur J Pain
July 2008
Anesthesia Research Unit (Faculty of Medicine), Faculty of Dentistry and McGill Centre for Research on Pain McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Some chronic pain conditions are more prevalent in women. However, the evidence from both human and animal studies as to whether estrogen is pro- or anti-nociceptive is inconsistent. We have used a model of functional abdominal pain in mice to examine the role of estrogen in the modulation of a hyperalgesic state induced by ovariectomy.
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