The effect of chronic oral desipramine on capsaicin-induced allodynia and hyperalgesia: A double-blinded, placebo-controlled, crossover study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 973-978

  Wallace, Mark S ^a   Barger, Danielle ^a   Schulteis, Gery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; DESIPRAMINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ADULT; ALLODYNIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; INSOMNIA; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NAUSEA; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SWEAT GLAND DISEASE; THERMAL STIMULATION; VERTIGO; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 0036784752     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-200210000-00034     Document Type: Article

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