Dexmedetomidine exerts dose-dependent age-independent antinociception but age-dependent hypnosis in fischer rats

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1295-1302

  Sanders, Robert D ^a   Giombini, Mariangella ^a   Ma, Daqing ^a   Ohashi, Yoko ^a   Hossain, Mahmuda ^a   Fujinaga, Masahiko ^a   Maze, Mervyn ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXMEDETOMIDINE; FORMALDEHYDE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; HYPNOSIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGHTING REFLEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 17744373712     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000149595.41576.B3     Document Type: Article

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