Using the mouse grimace scale to reevaluate the efficacy of postoperative analgesics in laboratory mice

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-49

  Matsumiya, Lynn C ^a   Sorge, Robert E ^b   Sotocinal, Susana G ^b   Tabaka, John M ^b   Wieskopf, Jeffrey S ^b   Zaloum, Austin ^b   King, Oliver D ^c   Mogil, Jeffrey S ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BOSTON BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AD 50, half maximal analgesic dose; MGS, mouse grimace scale; NSAID, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug; PEG, polyethylene glycol

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; CARPROFEN; KETOPROFEN; PARACETAMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; BUPRENORPHINE; CARBAZOLES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FACIAL EXPRESSION; KETOPROFEN; MICE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84856915018     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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