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Selective Inflammatory Pain Insensitivity in the African Naked Mole-Rat (Heterocephalus glaber)
In all mammals, tissue inflammation leads to pain and behavioral sensitization to thermal and mechanical stimuli called hyperalgesia. We studied pain mechanisms in the African naked mole-rat, an unusual rodent species that lacks pain-related neuropeptides (e.g., substance P) in cutaneous sensory fib...
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Public Library of Science
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2214810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18232734 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0060013 |