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Alterations in neuronal excitability and the potency of spinal mu, delta and kappa opioids after carrageenan-induced inflammation. Pain 50:345–54, 1992. 100. Stein C, Millan M, Shippenberg T, et al. Peripheral effect of fentanyl upon nociception in inflamed tissue of the rat. Neurosci Lett 84:225–8, 1988. 101. Combe R, Bramwell S, Field MJ. The monosodium iodoacetate model of osteoarthritis: a model of chronic nociceptive pain in rats? Neurosci Lett 370:236–40, 2004. 102. Xu M, Kim CJ, Neubert MJ, Heinricher MM.
Another limitation of an animal model is that it is not possible to distinguish or discriminate the different types of pain sensations of the animal. , “burning” pain or “shooting” pain), information from animal studies is confined to observations made on physical features and behavioral responses that are suggestive of pain. A question one needs to bear in mind when using animal models is: Which model relates to which clinical condition? Although some animal models represent specific clinical conditions (trigeminal CCI-induced neuropathy and diabetic neuropathy model), others are not as specific.
This ability is unique to this model of nerve injury because in the CCI and PSTL models, the injured and intact primary afferent neurons are mixed within all the DRG innervating the sciatic nerve territory. Models of central pain Xu and colleagues112 developed a model of central pain that involves ischemic spinal cord injury induced photochemically by laser irradiation. The model produces allodynialike behaviors whose severity can be titrated by changing the duration of the light exposure. Models of diabetic neuropathy Various models have been developed recently to study the complications associated with the clinical condition of diabetes mellitus.