Animal Models of Pain [Hardcover]

With the loss of work days, the price of health care and payments for compensation, litigation, and malpractice, and the overwhelming cost of human suffering, chronic pain syndromes affect humanity enormously on both an economic and personal level. In Animal Models of Pain, expert investigators in the field provide a consolidated review of the current state of pain research by capturing the diversity of animal models that are used to investigate pain mechanisms, which range from surgical incision to mechanical compression and from spinal cord injury to cutaneous/local inflammation and beyond. As a volume in the respected Neuromethods series, this book delivers its vital content through detailed descriptions of a wide variety of step-by-step laboratory methods.Authoritative and cutting-edge, Animal Models of Pain seeks to lead scientists closer to the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life and relieving the unbearable burden of chronic pain for millions of people throughout the world.

This authoritative book investigates a wide range of pain mechanisms. It seeks to lead scientists closer to the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life and relieving the unbearable burden of chronic pain for millions of people throughout the world.

1. Assessment of Pain in AnimalsWenrui Xie2. Animal Models of Inflammatory PainRui-Xin Zhang and Ke Ren3. Animal Models of Visceral PainKarin N. Westlund4. Animal Models of Pain After Peripheral Nerve InjuryLintao Qu and Chao Ma5. Animal Models of Pain After Injury to the Spinal Ganglia and Dorsal RootsXue-Jun Song6. Localized Inflammatory Irritation of the Lumbar Ganglia: An Animal Model of Chemogenic Low Back Pain and RadiculopathyJun-Ming Zhang7. Animal Models of Central Neuropathic PainBryan Hains and Louis P. Vera-Portocarrero8. Animal Models of Cancer PainPaul W. Wacnik, Cholawat Pacharinsak, and Alvin J. Beitz9. Animal Models of Diabetic Neuropathic PainMaxim Dobretsov, Miroslav Misha Backonja, Dmitry l³Ù