Elsevier

Life Sciences

Volume 31, Issue 1, 5 July 1982, Pages 67-75
Life Sciences

Further evidence validating adjuvant arthritis as an experimental model of chronic pain in the rat

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Abstract

The experiments described here were aimed at further validating adjuvant arthritis as an animal model of chronic pain. It was found that the relative oral intake of a 0.008 mg/ml solution of fentanyl was higher in arthritic than in normal control rats; this difference was predicted by the notion that the analgesic effect of a substance may reinforce its intake in animals exposed to pain, more so than in normal pain-free animals. It was also found that body weight decreases and that vocalizations of aggregated rats increase as a result of the challenge; these effects suggest that the vegetative signs and the behavioral irritability which are characteristic of chronic pain in humans, also occur in arthritic animals. The pain which thus seems to be associated with adjuvant arthritis was estimated to have its onset on days 10–11, to peak on days 18–21, and to terminate on days 35–40 after inoculation with Mycobacterium butyricum.

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