The Journal of Pain
Volume 6, Issue 9 , Pages 604-611 , September 2005

Associations Among Four Modalities of Experimental Pain in Women

  • Kanokporn Bhalang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Oral Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Neurosensory Disorders Unit, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Kanokporn Bhalang, DDS, PhD, Department of Oral Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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  • Asgeir Sigurdsson

      Affiliations

    • Neurosensory Disorders Unit, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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  • Gary D. Slade

      Affiliations

    • Neurosensory Disorders Unit, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
    • Australian Researcher Center for Population Oral Health, Dental School, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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  • William Maixner

      Affiliations

    • Neurosensory Disorders Unit, School of Dentistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Received 4 September 2004 ,Revised 15 March 2005 ,Accepted 4 April 2005.

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 Supported by NIH grants DE07509 and NS045685.

PII: S1526-5900(05)00639-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2005.04.006

The Journal of Pain
Volume 6, Issue 9 , Pages 604-611 , September 2005

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