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Weather change and pain: a behavioral animal study of the influences of simulated meteorological changes on chronic pain

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  1. All the experiments in the present study received approval from the Animal Care Committee of Nagoya University, and were performed in accordance with the guidelines of the International Association for the Study of Pain (Zimmermann 1983)

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I am grateful to Professor K. Mizumura for supporting this study and to M. Aoyama, A. Ito, T. Kobayashi, H. Morimae, T. Nagao, T. Okada, S. Okumura, S. Omura, Y. Seino, N. Suzuki, K. Takanari, M. Watanabe and M. Yamazaki for their cooperation in some of the experiments mentioned here. This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, the Kato Ryutaro Foundation at Nagoya University, a part of the "Ground Research for Space Utilization" promoted by NASDA and Japan Space Forum, and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Collaboration Project with Industries (DENSO Corporation).

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Sato, J. Weather change and pain: a behavioral animal study of the influences of simulated meteorological changes on chronic pain. Int J Biometeorol 47, 55–61 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-002-0156-9

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Keywords

  • Sympathetic Nerve Activity
  • Mechanical Allodynia
  • Barometric Pressure
  • Chronic Constriction Injury
  • Mechanical Hyperalgesia