Human Pain and Opioid Physiology Research. Information about Pain Research Techniques. Are you having trouble viewing video files on our website? Please install the latest version of the Macromedia Flash player for your web browser. The team from the Discovery Channel television program Mythbusters. Featuring Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, visited the Chu lab in January to learn some basic human experimental pain models and how quantitative sensory testing of pain is performed.

Thank you very much for your continued support for the Pain Research Advocates blog. This year will be busy with many advocate activities, and we will be adding many more articles to our lineup. Using Objective Signs of Severe Pain to Guide Opioid Prescribing.

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Transcriptomic profiling with RNA-seq is increasingly common. Often, RNA-seq is used a first step to discover genes, followed by manipulation of said genes to show a causal relationship with some phenotype.

Raising Awareness of Pain Research. Take a look at RELIEF, our freely available news web site for patients and the general public that translates the research PRF covers into accessible language suitable for lay audiences. To read the latest content, please visit relief. The Kappa Opioid Receptor Takes Shape. Newly revealed structure of active state of KOR will aid in design of safer, more effective opioids. Welcome to the IASP Pain Research Forum.