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School of Allied Medical Professions, The Ohio State University

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Medicine

Acute and Chronic Tactile Sensory Testing after Spinal Cord Injury in Rats

Megan Ryan Detloff^1,2, Lesley C. Fisher¹, Rochelle J. Deibert¹, D. Michele Basso¹

¹Center for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair, School of Allied Medical Professions, The Ohio State University, ²Spinal Cord Research Center, Drexel University College of Medicine

We describe two tactile sensory testing methods for acute or chronic periods of spinal cord injury in rats. These validated procedures can detect the development and maintenance of allodynia-like sensations.