A trouble shared is a trouble halved: social context and status affect pain in mouse dyads.

In mice behavioral response to pain is modulated by social status. Recently, social context also has been shown to affect pain sensitivity. In our study, we aimed to investigate the effects of interaction between status and social context in dyads of outbred CD-1 male mice in which the dominance/sub...

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Main Authors: Laura Gioiosa, Flavia Chiarotti, Enrico Alleva, Giovanni Laviola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2613518?pdf=render

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