Why the Pig is a Good Preclinical Model for Wound Healing
There are many options for preclinical wound healing research. All studies are designed to predict how a particular treatment will behave in a human...
Pig Model of Post-operative Pain- Analgesic Assessment
MD Biosciences, in collaboration with PainReform Ltd tested two new anesthetic formulations in the recent publication “Prolonged Analgesic Effect of...
Pain Response in Pigs Mimics Human Pain Behavior
The pig peripheral neuritis trauma (PNT) model is an important transitional model that bridges the gap between animal research and the clinic. While...
Pig Model Validation In Neuropathic Pain-SfN 2015
Last week, MD Biosciences presented a poster at the Society for Neurosciences 2015 Conference in Chicago. As strong advocates for the use of pig in...
Stress, Trauma & Pain- Image Not Imagine The Evidence| Biomarkers
The 9th Annual Congress of the European Pain Federation EFIC® was anything but painful as it concluded last week in Vienna with three days of...
Successfully Predict Neuropathic Pain Conditions
The rodent has historically been used as the dominant model for the study of pain mechanisms and new therapeutics. There are good reasons for this...
Translating Preclinical Data to the Clinic
It's a question that comes up regularly, from scientists who contact us to publications to conference lectures. One of the challenges in preclinical...
Assessing Subjective Pain | Preclinical Pain Studies
Rodent models of pain such as nerve injury models are important to understand the mechanisms that may contribute to human neuropathic pain. Imaging...
Increase Validity of Preclinical Pain Research
If you work in drug discovery and development, you are well aware of the failure rate at clinical trials. Industry estimates are that clinical...