Here, we describe a rapid reliable and simple procedure to determine the lowest temperature at which rats or mice show nocifensive behavior, i.e. the thermal nociceptive threshold (TNT). This method applies a slowly increasing thermal stimulus allowing precise and reproducible estimation of TNTs with minimum, if any, stress to the animals.
Alshahrani, S., Fernandez-Conti, F., Araujo, A., DiFulvio, M. Rapid Determination of the Thermal Nociceptive Threshold in Diabetic Rats. J. Vis. Exp. (63), e3785, doi:10.3791/3785 (2012).