Report for: The Assessment of Post-Vasectomy Pain in Mice Using Behaviour and the Mouse Grimace Scale

Title	The Assessment of Post-Vasectomy Pain in Mice Using Behaviour and the Mouse Grimace Scale
Published in	PLOS ONE, April 2012
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0035656
Pubmed ID	22558191
Authors	Matthew C. Leach, Kristel Klaus, Amy L. Miller, Maud Scotto di Perrotolo, Susana G. Sotocinal, Paul A. Flecknell
Abstract	Current behaviour-based pain assessments for laboratory rodents have significant limitations. Assessment of facial expression changes, as a novel means of pain scoring, may overcome some of these limitations. The Mouse Grimace Scale appears to offer a means of assessing post-operative pain in mice that is as effective as manual behavioural-based scoring, without the limitations of such schemes. Effective assessment of post-operative pain is not only critical for animal welfare, but also the validity of science using animal models.

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