Pain sensitivity and experimentally indu
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Trine Andresen; Dagmar Lunden; Asbjørn M. Drewes; Lars Arendt-Nielsen
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Article
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2011
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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English
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## Abstract ## Introduction and aim Pain sensitivity has been linked to the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene. A mutation in MC1R can result in pale skin and red hair in humans and may modulate pain responses in general. Human studies have shown that women with non-functional MC1R’s were sensiti