Methods in Pain Research

by Lawrence Kruger (Editor)

Overview

In the past two decades, pain research has become one of the most rapidly growing areas of neuroscience activity. Methods in Pain Research brings together in a single volume a survey of the methods that can be used to study a reaction or 'sensory report' in humans that can only be inferred by indirect means in animal or tissues studies. It presents

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040202227
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/22/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	3 MB

Table of Contents

The Idiosyncratic Problems Associated with Pain Research. Techniques for Assessing Nociception in Murine Subjects. Techniques for Mutagenesis of the Murine Opioid System In Vivo. Animal Models of Pain. Methods in Visceral Pain Research. The Cytokine Challenge: Methods for the Detection of Central Cytokines in Rodent Models of Persistent Pain. Extracellular Sampling Methods. Electrophysiological Recording Techniques in Pain Research. Membrane Properties: Ion Channels. Morphological Techniques; Light and Electron Microscopy, Labeling Methods. Quantitative Morphology in Relation to Long-Term Pain States; Estimates of Neuron Numbers. Non-Invasive Brain Imaging Methods for Assessing Central Pain Mechanisms. Methods for Imaging Human Brain Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain. Induction of Pain in Experimental, Clinical, and Pharmacological Studies.