| abstract |
The present invention relates to a method for desensitizing a subject animal, which comprises administering to the subject animal a therapeutically effective desensitizing amount of resiniferatoxin for desensitizing the subject animal to neurogenic inflammation, to chemically and thermally induced pain and to responses involving sensory afferent pathways sensitive to capsaicin and to responses involving the hypothalamic temperature control region, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier therefor. |