Effects of Intrathecal Nonnarcotic Analgesics on Chronic Tactile Allodynia in Rats: α2-Agonists versus Somatostatin Analog

Neurologia medico-chirurgica

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 6-11

  Ono, Nobuo ^a   Kroin, Jeffrey S ^b   Penn, Richard D ^b   Paice, Judith A ^b  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

allodynia; clonidine; intrathecal drug infusion; octreotide; tizanidine

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; CLONIDINE; OCTREOTIDE; SOMATOSTATIN DERIVATIVE; TIZANIDINE;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG POTENCY; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; TACTILE STIMULATION; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; CLONIDINE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; OCTREOTIDE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 0031055883     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.37.6     Document Type: Article

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