The Journal of Pain
Volume 10, Issue 9 , Pages 969-975 , September 2009

DRD3 Ser9Gly Polymorphism Is Related to Thermal Pain Perception and Modulation in Chronic Widespread Pain Patients and Healthy Controls

  • Stéphane Potvin

      Affiliations

    • Service of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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  • Annie Larouche

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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  • Edith Normand

      Affiliations

    • Service of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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  • Juliana Barcellos de Souza

      Affiliations

    • Service of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
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  • Isabelle Gaumond

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health Sciences, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada
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  • Sylvain Grignon

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
    • ,
  • Serge Marchand

      Affiliations

    • Service of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dr Serge Marchand, University of Sherbrooke, Faculty of Medicine, Axe Douleur CRC-CHUS, 3001, 12e Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, Canada, J1H 5N4.

Received 14 August 2008 ,Revised 19 January 2009 ,Accepted 18 March 2009.

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 Drs Potvin and Larouche contributed equally to this work.

 Dr Marchand is holder of the Pain Chair from the University of Sherbrooke and UQAT and a supported member of the Centre de recherche clinique Étienne-Le Bel du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke (Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec). Dr Potvin is holder of a postdoctoral scholarship from the Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR). Dr Marchand holds grants from the CIHR. Dr Grignon is a member of the Centre de Recherches Cliniques Etienne-Le Bel and of the Centre des Neurosciences de Sherbrooke. Genotyping studies were funded in part by an unrestricted grant from Novartis Canada to the Department of Psychiatry, Sherbrooke University.

PII: S1526-5900(09)00471-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2009.03.013

The Journal of Pain
Volume 10, Issue 9 , Pages 969-975 , September 2009

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