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Involvement between social defeat stress and pain-related behavior in a rat lumbar disk herniation model.
Abstract
Psychological and social factors are involved in the disability and chronicity of pain. Our study aim was to investigate whether social defeat stress (SDS) as a psychophysical stress affected mechanical withdrawal thresholds in the lumbar disk herniation (LDH) rat model. Changes in microglia and astrocytes, which play important roles in neuropathic pain states, were also investigated.