Postoperative pain behaviours in rabbits following orthopaedic surgery and effect of observer presence.

Rabbits are widely used in studies focusing on pain. However, pain is undertreated in this species and one possible factor to explain this is the lack of evaluation methods. The objective of this study was to identify behaviours related to orthopaedic pain in rabbits and to evaluate the influence of...

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Main Authors: Renata Haddad Pinho, Matthew C Leach, Bruno Watanabe Minto, Fabiana Del Lama Rocha, Stelio Pacca Loureiro Luna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0240605