The effect of spinal analgesia on visceral nociceptive neurons in caudal medulla of the rat

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 721-726

  Ness, T J ^a   Piper, J G ^b   Follett, K A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HALOTHANE; INFUMORPH; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; PANCURONIUM BROMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERANCE; EVOKED RESPONSE; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; DRUG TOLERANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROELECTRODES; MORPHINE; NEURONS; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032843845     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199909000-00036     Document Type: Article

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