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Gait abnormalities differentially indicate pain or structural joint damage in monoarticular antigen-induced arthritis

  • Michael K. Boettger

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology I, University Hospital, Jena, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Institute of Physiology I/Neurophysiology, University Hospital Jena, Teichgraben 8, 07743 Jena, Germany. Tel.: +49 3641 938864; fax: +49 3641 938812.
    • ,
  • Konstanze Weber

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology I, University Hospital, Jena, Germany
    • ,
  • Manuela Schmidt

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Systematic Zoology and Evolutionary Biology, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany
    • ,
  • Mieczyslaw Gajda

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, University Hospital, Jena, Germany
    • ,
  • Rolf Bräuer

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Pathology, University Hospital, Jena, Germany
    • ,
  • Hans-Georg Schaible

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Physiology I, University Hospital, Jena, Germany

Received 22 April 2009 ,Accepted 1 June 2009.

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PII: S0304-3959(09)00323-6

doi: 10.1016/j.pain.2009.06.006

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