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The Sciatic Nerve Cuffing Model of Neuropathic Pain in Mice
Published on: July 16, 2014
Botulinum toxin type A in experimental neuropathic pain
L Bach-Rojecky1, M Relja, Z Lacković
1Department of Pharmacology, School of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
Journal of Neural Transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)
|January 20, 2005
Abstract:
A peripheral application of botulinum toxin type A (7 U/kg) has significantly reduced thermal and mechanical hypersensitivity in rats with the partial sciatic nerve transection as a classical model of surgical neuropathy.
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