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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation attenuates CFA-induced hyperalgesia and inhibits spinal ERK1/2-COX-2 pathway activation in rats

BACKGROUND: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a non-pharmacologic treatment for pain relief. In previous animal studies, TENS effectively alleviated Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA)- or carrageenan-induced inflammatory pain. Although TENS is known to produce analgesia via opioid...

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Autores principales: Fang, Jun-Fan, Liang, Yi, Du, Jun-Ying, Fang, Jian-Qiao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3689089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23768044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-13-134