The Journal of Pain
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 125-132 , January 2011

Varying Perceived Social Threat Modulates Pain Behavior in Male Mice

  • Dale J. Langford

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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  • Alexander H. Tuttle

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
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  • Ciara Briscoe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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  • Colin Harvey-Lewis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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  • Inna Baran

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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  • Patrick Gleeson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
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  • David B. Fischer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
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  • Michele Buonora

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
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  • Wendy F. Sternberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania
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  • Jeffrey S. Mogil

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology and Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Jeffrey S. Mogil, PhD, Dept. of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave., Montreal, QC H3A 1B1 Canada.

Received 14 April 2010 ,Revised 18 May 2010 ,Accepted 4 June 2010.

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 Supported by the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation (J.S.M.) and the National Science Foundation (W.F.S.). D.J.L. was supported by a Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) Doctoral Award. A.H.T. was supported by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

PII: S1526-5900(10)00557-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2010.06.003

The Journal of Pain
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 125-132 , January 2011

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