·         Pain assessment in patients (pain scales, patient-controlled analgesia, quantitative sensory testing)

·         Models (capsaicin, inflammatory, neuropathic, postoperative, osteoarthritis)

·         Behavioral tests (von Frey filaments, Hargreaves test, pressure test, dynamic weight bearing, whole body vibration, conditional place preference, rotarod, open field, pulse oximeter)

·         Neuronal and immune cell cultures

·         Electrophysiology (skin-nerve preparation, patch-clamp)

·         Calcium imaging, FRET

·         Flow cytometry, magnetic cell sorting

·         In vivo microdialysis

·         Radioimmunoassay, ELISA, radioligand binding, western-blot

·         Histological assays: immunohistochemistry, immunofluorescence, confocal microscopy

·         DNA/RNA isolation, real-time PCR, in situ hybridization, transfections Gene and mRNA targeting