Tetrodotoxin for prolonged local anesthesia with minimal myotoxicity

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 747-753

  Padera, Robert F ^a   Tse, Julie Y ^b   Bellas, Evangelia ^b   Kohane, Daniel S ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflamation; Local anesthetics; Muscle injury; Nerve blockade; Tetrodotoxin

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; BUPIVACAINE; TETRODOTOXIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOXICITY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE TOXICITY; MYOBLAST; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROTOXICITY; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SCORING SYSTEM; THERMAL STIMULATION; TOXICITY TESTING;

ANESTHESIA, LOCAL; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BUPIVACAINE; EPINEPHRINE; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE BLOCK; RATS; SCIATIC NERVE; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 33845301664     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: 10974598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.20618     Document Type: Article

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