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Diabetes mellitus is often accompanied by diabetic neuropathy and altered nociception, usually assumed to be a consequence of the peripheral abnormalities. However, recent literature data suggest involvement of the central nervous system, as well. Rats treated intracerebroventricularly (icv) with low doses of betacytotoxic drugs do not get diabetes mellitus, but develop the state of so called Уcerebral diabetesФ manifested with similar brain neurochemistry and cognitive alterations as those seen in diabetes mellitus. In line with that and the existence of brain insulin system and betacytotoxics selectivity for insulin producing/secreting cells, betacytotoxic icv Ц treated rats present a good experimental model for investigating the central origin of diabetes related abnormalities. We have investigated the spontaneous pain threshold by means of two different tests (hot plate and paw pressure test) in rats treated with two betacytotoxic drugs (alloxan and streptozotocin) following their peripheral, diabetogenic and central, nondiabetogenic administration. Four weeks following the drug treatment, the spontaneous pain threshold, determined as a reaction latency time in the hot plate test was increased in alloxan (+52%)- and streptozotocin (+100%)-diabetic rats. Similar, but less pronounced increase was also observed in the hot plate test in alloxan (+46%) and streptozotocin (+62%) icv-treated rats. However, the spontaneous pain threshold, determined as a reaction latency time in the paw pressure test was decreased in alloxan (-45%)- and streptozotocin (-31%)-diabetic animals, as well as in alloxan (-28%)- and streptozotocin (-23%) icv-treated ones, in comparison to the respective control animals. Alloxan and streptozotocin have different mechanisms of action. 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