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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 18.
Published in final edited form as: Pain. 2007 May 3;134(1-2):9–15. doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2007.03.029

Table 1.

Summary of visceral and somatic pain testing

Tests Saline control rats (n = 20) Ethanol control rats (n = 20) Recovered rats (n = 57 of 75) Hypersensitive rats (n = 18 of 75) One-way ANOVA Followed by Tukey comparison
Colonic distention (mmHg) 53.85 ± 10.27 52.42 ± 9.17 51.05 ± 11 31 17.92 ± 5.03 p < 0.001
Mechanical stimuli (force/g) 33.52 ± 6.73 32.79 ± 6.08 30.82 ± 7.23 9.99 ± 4.22 p < 0.001
Thermal stimuli (latency/s) 16.63 ± 3.00 16.73 ± 3.23 16.36 ± 3.75 4.99 ± 1.45 p < 0.001
Tail flick reflex (latency/s) 5.65 ± 1.10 5.94 ± 1.02 5.75 ± 1.17 2.39 ± 0.72 p < 0.001

All values represent means ± standard deviation (SD).