Flupirtine versus placebo in chronic tension-type headache

Headache Quarterly

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 30-38

  Wörz, Roland ^a,b,c   Lobisch, Michael ^c   Gessler, Martin ^c   Grotemeyer, Karl Heinz ^e   Nehrdich, Detlef ^d   May, Arne ^f   Schabet, Martin ^g   Schwittmann, Barbara ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Pain Center   (Germany)

^c Dept of Medical Research Analgesics ^*  (Germany)

^d ASTA MEDICA AG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^h AR GE Pain Clinic   (Germany)

Author keywords

double blind study; flupirtine; NMDA modulation; placebo controlled; tension type headache

Indexed keywords

FLUPIRTINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DYSPEPSIA; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENSION HEADACHE; VERTIGO;

EID: 0029942030     PISSN: 10597565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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