Researchers of the Neuropharmacology and Pain Research Group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), the University of Barcelona (UB) and ESTEVE, have developed a technology that enables to determine drugs' analgesic potential before being tested in animal models. The finding saves time and money in the research on new effective pain treatments.Traditionally in the development of analgesic drugs, the effectiveness of these molecules has been proved by using pain animal models, a hard, expensive and unclear process from a pharmacological point of view.

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