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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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Autores principales: Park, Thomas J, Lu, Ying, Jüttner, René, Smith, Ewan St. J, Hu, Jing, Brand, Antje, Wetzel, Christiane, Milenkovic, Nevena, Erdmann, Bettina, Heppenstall, Paul A, Laurito, Charles E, Wilson, Steven P, Lewin, Gary R
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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

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