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Animal Models of Pain
The Scientist 2005, 19(Supplement 1):s10
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Non-human animals have served as valuable models in many types of biomedical investigations, but when it comes to pain, some assumptions are necessary. We can measure nociception at the neuronal level, but must infer that signs of agitation and avoidance in rats or frogs mirror human behaviors – that is, that they feel what we call pain.
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