Multiple dose gabapentin attenuates cutaneous pain and central sensitisation but not muscle pain in healthy volunteers

Pain

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 158-164

  Segerdahl, M ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electric stimulation; Gabapentin; Human experimental; Hyperalgesia; Hypertonic saline; Pain

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; GABAPENTIN; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG REEXPOSURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MULTIPLE DRUG DOSE; MYALGIA; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIZATION; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN PAIN; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AMINES; ANALGESICS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749482625     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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