Epinephrine increases spinal cord concentrations of [3H]-clonidine hydrochloride in rabbits after epidural infusion

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 324-327

  Fu, Eugene S ^a   Naidu, Kamatham A ^a   Prockop, Leon D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CLONIDINE; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; SUFENTANIL; TRITIUM;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ADRENERGIC AGONISTS; ADRENERGIC ALPHA-AGONISTS; ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; CLONIDINE; DRUG INTERACTIONS; EPINEPHRINE; INJECTIONS, EPIDURAL; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; PONS; RABBITS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SPINAL CORD; TRITIUM;

EID: 0030854444     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199708000-00015     Document Type: Article

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