An Assessment of Vascular Pain Using the Flexor Reflex in Anesthetized Rats

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-115

  Ando, R ^a   Yonezawa, A ^a   Watanabe, C ^b   Kawamura, S ^a  

^a TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Capsaicin; Capsazepine; Flexor reflex; Urethane anesthesia; Vascular pain

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; CAPSAZEPINE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; PROCAINE; URETHAN; VANILLOID RECEPTOR;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ANTAGONISM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FLEXOR REFLEX; HINDLIMB; LATENT PERIOD; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; RAT; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CAPSAICIN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MORPHINE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NALOXONE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCAINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, STRETCH; TIME FACTORS; TOES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 1842555450     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.2004.26.2.800063     Document Type: Article

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