''Molecular Pain'' is a

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covering all aspects of research on

pain Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging Stimulus (physiology), stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sense, sensory and emotional experience associated with, or res ...

. It was established in 2005 and is published by

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. The

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are Jianguo Gu (

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) and Min Zhuo (

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), who was also the founding editor of the journal. It is sponsored by the

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2012

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of 3.774.

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External links

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