The Rat Grimace Scale: A partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions

The Rat Grimace Scale: A partially automated method for quantifying pain in the laboratory rat via facial expressions

<p>Abstract</p> <p>We recently demonstrated the utility of quantifying spontaneous pain in mice via the blinded coding of facial expressions. As the majority of preclinical pain research is in fact performed in the laboratory rat, we attempted to modify the scale for use in this sp...

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Main Authors: Zhan Shu, Wei Peng, Mapplebeck Josiane CS, Wieskopf Jeffrey S, Martin Loren J, Tuttle Alexander H, Zaloum Austin, Sorge Robert E, Sotocinal Susana G, Zhang Shuren, McDougall Jason J, King Oliver D, Mogil Jeffrey S
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2011-07-01
Series:Molecular Pain
Online Access:http://www.molecularpain.com/content/7/1/55

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