Concentration-effect relationships for intravenous alfentanil and ketamine infusions in human volunteers: Effects on acute thresholds and capsaicin-evoked hyperpathia

Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 70-80

  Wallace, Mark S ^a   Ridgeway III, Beri ^a   Leung, Albert ^a   Schulteis, Gery ^a   Yaksh, Tony L ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; CAPSAICIN; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; KETAMINE;

ADULT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLD SENSATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HEAT; HEAT SENSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; SEDATION; TASTE DISORDER; TINNITUS; VERTIGO; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; ALFENTANIL; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAPSAICIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; KETAMINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN THRESHOLD; TOUCH;

EID: 0036139161     PISSN: 00912700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0091270002042001008     Document Type: Article

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