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===Metabolic Effects===
===Metabolic Effects===
Pain may activate the stress response and hence hormone secretion from the pituitary glands, adrenal glands and pancreas. This leads to substrate mobilisation and catabolism, particularly protein wasting. These effects can impair wound healing, and in the long term result in immunosupression. They can also cause a negative energy balance, giving weight loss or poor growth in young animals. It is important to bear this fact in mind when considering the economics of analgesia in food animal production.
===Cardiovascular Effects===
===Cardiovascular Effects===
==Assessment of Animal Pain==
==Assessment of Animal Pain==