MODEL ANIMAL OF NEURALGIA AFTER HERPES ZOSTER, METHOD FOR PREPARATION OF THE ANIMAL AND METHOD FOR SCREENING OF AGENT FOR TREATMENT OR PREVENTION OF NEURALGIA AFTER HERPES ZOSTER OR ANALGESIC AGENT BY USING THE ANIMAL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a model animal necessary for the evaluation of pharmaceuticals to judge the analgesic action of a drug on the pain of neuralgia occurring after the cure of herpes zoster or to develop pharmaceuticals for the treatment of neuralgia after herpes zoster.;SOLUTION: The method for the preparation of a model animal of neuralgia after herpes zoster comprises the steps of infecting an animal (excluding human) with herpes virus to cause eruption of the skin, vanishing the eruption and selecting the animal developing the neuralgia after herpes zoster among the animals with vanished eruption.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO