Tail Flick Test
Objective: Assessment of nociceptive pain response through measurement of tail withdrawal latency from a heat source
This is a Tail Flick Test protocol using mouse as the model organism. The procedure involves 1 procedural steps, 1 equipment items. Extracted from a 2008 paper published in Physiological Genomics.
Model and subjects
mouse • Four inbred reference strains: C57BL/6J, C3HeB/FeJ, BALB/cByJ, 129S2/SvPas • unknown • Not specified • Not specified
Study window
Estimated timing pending
Core workflow
Tail flick test administration
Primary readouts
- Tail withdrawal latency from heat source
- Nociceptive pain response
Key equipment and reagents
Verified items
0
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Tail flick test administration
Conduct tail flick test as part of standard operating procedures to assess nociceptive pain response
Note: Test was conducted as part of a cross-laboratory validation study involving five research centers across France, Germany, Italy, and the UK
View evidence from paper
“tail flick tests, generated reproducible results between laboratories for a number of the test output parameters”