Stress-related pain behavior in rats with peripheral nerve injuries.
The effects of cold stress were studied on rats with unilaterally sectioned sciatic nerves. Behaviors suggestive of pain occurred in a number of these animals. These behaviors vanished when removing the rats from the stressful environment. Some severely painful syndromes in man might in part be due to mechanisms similar to those underlying the described behaviors in rats.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology*; D051381:Rats; D012584:Sciatic Nerve / Q000293:injuries*; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000523:psychology*