A combination of gabapentin and morphine mediates enhanced inhibitory effects on dorsal horn neuronal responses in a rat model of neuropathy

Anesthesiology

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 633-640

  Matthews, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Dickenson, Anthony H ^a  

^a Department of Neuropharmacology ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; MORPHINE;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; MALE; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL NERVE;

ACETIC ACIDS; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; LIGATION; MALE; MORPHINE; NERVE FIBERS; PAIN; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL NERVES;

EID: 0036187307     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200203000-00020     Document Type: Article

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