Preemptive Analgesic Effects of Steroid Anesthesia with Alphaxalone in the Rat Formalin Test: Evidence for Differential GABAA Receptor Modulation in Persistent Nociception

Anesthesiology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 572-579

  Gilron, Ian ^a   Coderre, Terence J ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agonists: gamma amino butyric acid; Analgesia: alphaxalone; Anesthetics, steroid: alphaxalone; Pain: acute; chronic; Spinal cord: nociception

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALFAXALONE; ANESTHETIC AGENT; PENTOBARBITAL; PICROTOXIN; PROPOFOL; STEROID ANESTHETIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANALGESICS; ANESTHETICS; ANIMALS; GABA MODULATORS; MALE; PENTOBARBITAL; PREGNANEDIONES; PROPOFOL; RATS; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0029862925     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-199603000-00013     Document Type: Article

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