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Behavioral Phenotyping of Murine Disease Models with the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST)
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Behavioural changes in the rat following infection with varicella-zoster virus
S M Fleetwood-Walker1, J P Quinn1, C Wallace1
1Department of Veterinary Pathology1 and Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences2, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1QH, UK.
The Journal of General Virology
|September 29, 1999
Abstract:
Following the establishment of a chronic varicella-zoster virus infection in the rat, behavioural allodynia and hyperalgesia were observed in the injected, but not the contralateral hind limb up to 33 days post-infection. This model may prove useful in investigating mechanisms involved in the establishment of post-herpetic neuralgia.

