The role of antidepressants in the treatment of chronic pain

Pain Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 119-128

  Kakuyama, Masahiro ^a   Fukuda, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CITALOPRAM; CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; MIANSERIN; MIRTAZAPINE; MOCLOBEMIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE A INHIBITOR; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEFAZODONE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; PLACEBO; REBOXETINE; RITANSERIN; SEROTONIN 2 ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; TRAZODONE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VENLAFAXINE;

CANCER PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG STRUCTURE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MIGRAINE; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; TENSION HEADACHE;

EID: 0034582145     PISSN: 09681302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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