A congenital pain insensitivity mutation in the nerve growth factor gene uncouples nociception from affective pain in heterozygous humans and mice
Giovanna Testa, Irene Perini, Marco Mainardi, Chiara Morelli, Francesco Olimpico, Laura Pancrazi, Carla Petrella, Cinzia Severini, Rita Florio, Francesca Malerba, Paul A. Heppenstall, Mario Costa, India Morrison, Simona Capsoni, Antonino Cattaneo
This study investigates how congenital pain insensitivity in heterozygous humans and mice affects affective pain responses, finding dissociated effects on learned fear and neural processing.
bioRxiv · May 25, 2018 · PreprintNeuroscience