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What will ease the pain? Ask a frog

Frogs may leap to the forefront of pain research as the preferred guinea pig for testing new analgesics.

References:

Stevens, C.W. 1999. An amphibian whole-animal alternative for the study of pain (Abstract A-47). In 1999 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition: Challenges for a New Century, C.J. Boyd, ed. American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Sources:

Craig W. Stevens
Oklahoma State University
College of Osteopathic Medicine
1111 West 17th Street
Tulsa, OK 74107-1898

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 6, February 6, 1999, p. 91. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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