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Behavior

Meal Duration as a Measure of Orofacial Nociceptive Responses in Rodents
Phillip R. Kramer 1, Larry L. Bellinger 1
1Department of Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry

A lengthening in meal duration represents orofacial nociceptive behavior in rodents similar to the guarding behavior of humans with orofacial pain. Eating is a behavior that requires no training or animal manipulation, requires cortical participation, and is not competing with other experimentally induced behaviors, distinguishing this assay from alternative reflex or operant measurements.

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Developmental Biology

Method of Studying Palatal Fusion using Static Organ Culture
Isra Ibrahim 1, Maria J. Serrano 1, Kathy K.H. Svoboda 1
1Department of Biomedical Sciences and Center for Craniofacial Research and Diagnosis, Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry

Studies of palate development are motivated by the incidence of cleft palate, a birth defect that imposes a tremendous health burden and can leave lasting disfigurement. We demonstrate here a technique to culture palatal shelves that can be used to study different signaling pathways involved in palatal development and fusion.

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