Mechanistic Dissection of Pain: From DNA to Animal Models
Z. David Luo
Assessment of Acute Thermal Nociception in Laboratory Animals
Jeffrey W. Allen and Tony L. Yaksh
Tissue Injury Models of Persistent Nociception in Rats
Jeffrey W. Allen and Tony L. Yaksh
Segmental Spinal Nerve Ligation Model of Neuropathic Pain
Jin Mo Chung, Hee Kee Kim, and Kyungsoon Chung
Partial Sciatic Nerve Transection
Thies Lindenlaub and Claudia Sommer
Modeling Diabetic Sensory Neuropathy in Rats
Nigel A. Calcutt
Sciatic Inflammatory Neuropathy in the Rat: Surgical Procedures, Induction of Inflammation, and Behavioral Testing
Erin D. Milligan, Steven F. Maier, and Linda R. Watkins
A Rat Pain Model of Vincristine-Induced Neuropathy
Emiliano S. Higuera and Z. David Luo
Loop Dialysis Catheter: A Technology for Chronic Spinal Dialysis in a Freely Moving Rat
Martin Marsala
Intrathecal Catheterization and Drug Delivery in the Rat
Shelle A. Malkmus and Tony L. Yaksh
Trigeminal Neuronal Recording in Animal Models of Orofacial Pain
Koichi Iwata, Yuji Masuda, and Ke Ren
In Vivo Electrophysiology of Dorsal-Horn Neurons
Louise C. Stanfa and Anthony H. Dickenson
Single-Fiber Recording: In Vivo and In Vitro Preparations
Maria Schäfers and David Cain
Anatomical Identification of Neurons Responsive to Nociceptive Stimuli
Luc Jasmin and Peter T. Ohara
Isolation and Culture of Sensory Neurons From the Dorsal-Root Ganglia of Embryonic or Adult Rats
Thomas H. Burkey, Cynthia M. Hingtgen, and Michael R. Vasko
Primary Cultures of Neonatal Rat Spinal Cord
Virginia S. Seybold and Lia G. Abrahams
Single-Cell Laser Capture Microdissection and RNA Amplification
Fredrik Kamme, Jessica Zhu, Lin Luo, Jingxue Yu, Da-Thao Tran, Bernhard Meurers, Anton Bittner,Karin Westlund, Susan Carlton, and Jackson Wan
Semi-Quantitative Real-Time PCR for Pain Research
Hong Qing Guo and Sandra R. Chaplan
Functional Genomic Analysis in Pain Research Using Hybridization Arrays
Stephen J. Walker, Travis J. Worst, Willard M. Freeman, and Kent E. Vrana
Generation of Transgenic Mice
Guoping Feng, Jing Lu, and Jimmy Gross
Knockout Mouse Models in Pain Research
Andrée Dierich and Brigitte L. Kieffer
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