Behavior
Conduct extensive pain, sensory, motor, and cognitive behavioral testing.
MD Biosciences is dedicated to the study of pain and neurodegenerative diseases. The understanding of pain and novel mechanisms requires a deep understanding of the science as well as the resources in terms of expertise and infrastructure to effectively study therapeutic candidates in early and translational phases.
As with any model, the right selection of species, stimuli, assessments, and end-point analysis leads to a quality study that brings insight into the condition and potential therapeutic. MD Biosciences expertise in study design contributes to predictive data from preclinical studies.
MD Biosciences offers comprehensive in vivo measures and endpoint assessments, delivering robust data packages to support critical research decisions in the evolving landscape of drug development and biomedical research.
Conduct extensive pain, sensory, motor, and cognitive behavioral testing.
Explore inflammatory and pain biomarkers from disease-specific tissues.
Analyze tissue and cellular changes in disease, pain, and neurodegeneration.
Measure motor and sensory evoked potentials to assess disease progression and pain.
Measuring pain is often times straight forward using stimuli and measuring the resulting response. But the clinical situation not only evaluates response to the stimuli but the emotional component that patients report. In animal studies, we must rely on vocalization assessments and tests such as the open field to see how animals exhibit anxiety and behave emotionally as a result of the painful condition.
Our scientists understand the gaps that can fall within inflammation and pain research. We offer a range of inflammatory pain models from acute pain to chronic pain associated with inflammation.
Post-operative pain management is a major challenge for clinicians and patients. Unrelieved post-operative pain management causes patient suffering and discomfort, and can promote psychological and pathophysiological obstacles (Castel et al., 2014).
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Neuropathic pain is produced by damage to the neurons in the peripheral and central nervous systems and involves sensitization of these systems. MD Biosciences offers models of neuropathic pain involving nerve injury, diabetic, and chemotherapy.