Prolonged duration local anesthesia from tetrodotoxin-enhanced local anesthetic microspheres

Pain

Volumn 104, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 415-421

  Kohane, Daniel S ^a   Smith, Sarah E ^b   Louis, David N ^c   Colombo, Gaia ^d   Ghoroghchian, Peter ^e   Hunfeld, Nicole G M ^f   Berde, Charles B ^g   Langer, Robert ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^g BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Local anesthesia; Nerves; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; MICROSPHERE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INHIBITION KINETICS; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MICROSCOPY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVOUS TISSUE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SLOW RELEASE FORMULATION; TOXICITY;

EID: 0037823309     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(03)00049-6     Document Type: Article

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