Effects of the suppression of acute herpetic pain by gabapentin and amitriptyline on the incidence of delayed postherpetic pain in mice

Life Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 2619-2626

  Kuraishi, Yasushi ^a   Takasaki, Ichiro ^a   Nojima, Hiroshi ^a   Shiraki, Kimiyasu ^a   Takahata, Hiroki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Gabapentin; Herpes simplex virus; Herpetic pain; Postherpetic pain

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMITRIPTYLINE; GABAPENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HERPES; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; INOCULATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ACETIC ACIDS; AMINES; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPESVIRUS 1, HUMAN; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

HUMAN HERPESVIRUS 1; SIMPLEXVIRUS;

EID: 1642326671     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2004.01.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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