Gender difference in analgesic response to the kappa-opioid pentazocine

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 205, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 207-209

  Gear, Robert W ^a   Gordon, Newton C ^a   Heller, Philip H ^c   Paul, Steven ^a,b   Miaskowski, Christine ^a   Levine, Jon D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Gender; Pentazocine; Post operative dental pain

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE; PENTAZOCINE;

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029878677     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12402-2     Document Type: Article

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