About the Authors

Beatriz P. Monteiro

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GREPAQ (Groupe de recherche en pharmacologie animale du Québec), Department of biomedical sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

Louis-Philippe de Lorimier

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Vétérinaire Rive-Sud, Brossard, Quebec, Canada

Maxim Moreau

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations GREPAQ (Groupe de recherche en pharmacologie animale du Québec), Department of biomedical sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Guy Beauchamp

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation GREPAQ (Groupe de recherche en pharmacologie animale du Québec), Department of biomedical sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada

Jeffrey Blair

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Vétoquinol SA, Global–Le Groupe Vétoquinol, Magny-Vernois, France

Bertrand Lussier

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations GREPAQ (Groupe de recherche en pharmacologie animale du Québec), Department of biomedical sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Jean-Pierre Pelletier

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Eric Troncy

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

eric.troncy@umontreal.ca

Affiliations GREPAQ (Groupe de recherche en pharmacologie animale du Québec), Department of biomedical sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada, Osteoarthritis Research Unit, University of Montreal Hospital Research Centre (CRCHUM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. We feel that our research brings new information to the cancer pain fundamental knowledge and has the potential to modify future endeavours in the research of treatment for cancer pain for veterinary patients. The authors declare to have no Competing Interests, but Dr Jeffrey Blair is currently working for the Vétoquinol SA funder of the study. This commercial affiliation does not alter our adherence to PLoS-One policies on sharing data and materials.