Cold and Hot Plate Test - Publication

Bioseb team presents its respectful thanks to research team of Prof. Poisbeau (Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives de Strasbourg), who used the Cold and Hot Plate Test during its recent studies:

Differentiating Thermal Allodynia and Hyperalgesia Using Dynamic Hot and Cold Plate in Rodents, by I. Yalcin, A. Charlet, MJ. Freund-Mercier, M. Barrot and P. Poisbeau, in The Journal of Pain, 2009
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Abstract
Yalcin, Charlet, Freund-Mercier, Barrot and Poisbeau, using Bioseb's Hot and Cold Plate Test, could show that escape behavior (jumps) was the most appropriate parameter in C57Bl/6J mice, whereas nociceptive response was estimated by using the sum of paw lickings and withdrawals in Sprague-Dawley rats. They could also demonstrate that this procedure allows the detection of both thermal allodynia and hyperalgesia after peripheral pain sensitization with capsaicin in mice and in rats. In a condition of carrageenan-induced paw inflammation, they observed the previously described thermal hyperalgesia, but also revealed that rats exhibit a clear thermal allodynia to a cold or a hot stimulus.

These results demonstrate the interest of Bioseb's Dynamic Hot and Cold plate to study thermal nociception, and more particularly to study both thermal allodynia and hyperalgesia within a single paradigm in awake and freely moving rodents.

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