The acute myotoxic effects of bupivacaine and ropivacaine after continuous peripheral nerve blockades

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1173-1179

  Zink, Wolfgang ^a   Seif, Christoph ^b   Bohl, Jürgen R E ^c   Hacke, Nicola ^a   Braun, Peter M ^b   Sinner, Barbara ^a   Martin, Eike ^a   Fink, Rainer H A ^a   Graf, Bernhard M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPIVACAINE; ROPIVACAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CALCIUM HOMEOSTASIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE TONE; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARCOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SWINE; TISSUE INJURY;

EID: 0141569689     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000080610.14265.C8     Document Type: Article

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