Antinociceptive effects of intrathecal L-type calcium channel blockers on visceral and somatic stimuli in the rat

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 382-387

  Hara, Kaoru ^a   Saito, Yoji ^a   Kirihara, Yumiko ^a   Sakura, Shinichi ^a   Kosaka, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL; DILTIAZEM; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; DILTIAZEM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; TAIL; VERAPAMIL; VISCERA;

EID: 0031848893     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199808000-00027     Document Type: Article

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