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The detrimental impacts of pain on the quality of our daily life have drawn increasing attention from researchers, health care providers, policymakers, and social workers. The reality of effective painkillers specifically designed for different types of pain states has been obscured by missing knowledge of the mechanisms of different types of pain. Thus, studying the complexity of pain transduction, which includes various insults to the peripheral nervous systems, sensitized spinal circuits, and altered signals ascending to or descending from the brain, has emerged as a high priority task on the agenda of pharmaceutical companies and other private as well as public agencies. To accomplish this mission, one requires a combination of well-integrated systems, such as a- mal models resembling the pathological conditions of pain transduction, and an understanding of the interactions among pain transducers and mediators at the molecular level. Thanks to rapid advancements in the development of novel cellular and molecular biology techniques, as well as in our understanding of physiology, and of the behavioral pharmacology of pain transduction, the time is now ripe for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of pain transduction using multidisciplinary approaches. Indeed, my acceptance of the invitation from the series editor, Dr. John Walker, to assemble a book of methods and protocols for pain research was inspired by these emerging needs. The purpose of Pain Research: Methods and Protocols is to provide st- by-step methods and protocols of multidisciplinary approaches related to the study of pain transduction.
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Despite significant advances in molecular biology techniques and in our understanding of the physiology and the behavioral pharmacology of pain transduction, effective, target-specific therapeutic agents for chronic pain are still lacking. In Pain Research: Methods and Protocols, leading researchers who have first-hand experience describe, in step-by-step detail, diverse and novel techniques for dissecting the molecular mechanisms of pain transduction. These readily reproducible methods employ a variety of multidisciplinary approaches ranging from animal pain models and single neutron selection to in vitro single-cell mRNA amplification. The collection includes not only standard, cutting-edge methods, but also novel techniques only recently applied to pain research. The protocols follow the successful Methods in Molecular Biology™ series format, each one offering step-by-step laboratory instructions, an introduction outlining the principle behind the technique, lists of equipment and reagents, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Versatile and easy-to-use, Pain Research: Methods and Protocols offers today's pain researchers in academic and pharmaceutical laboratories powerful tools to unravel the cellular and molecular complexity of pain transduction and set the stage for the next generation of pain medications.
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Versatile and easy-to-use, Pain Research: Methods and Protocols offers today's pain researchers in academic and pharmaceutical laboratories powerful tools to unravel the cellular and molecular complexity of pain transduction and set the stage for the next generation of pain medications.
From the reviews of the second edition:
“This second edition of Pain Research – Methods and Protocols is an excellent compendium of chapters outlining the most current techniques used to study the neurobiology of pain. ... Pain Research – Methods and Protocols is aimed not only at the novice researcher with little experience in the field but also at bringing new techniques and approaches to the pain research community as a whole. The clear organizational structure of the text makes this a highly achievable goal.” (Bradley Kerr, Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal Canadien d'anesthésie, Vol. 60, January, 2013)"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherHumana Press
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1617373583
- ISBN 13 9781617373589
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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