Clonidine reduces the excitability of spinal dorsal horn neurones

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 353-361

  Wolff, Mathias ^a   Heugel, P ^b   Hempelmann, G ^a   Scholz, A ^b   Muhling J ^a   Olschewski, A ^a,c  

^a Clinic for Anaesthesiology Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ion channels, voltage gated; Pharmacology, clonidine; Spinal cord, sensory block

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; ANALGESIC AGENT; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; VOLTAGE GATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POTASSIUM CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SODIUM CURRENT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; STEADY STATE; TISSUE SLICE; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; WISTAR RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CLONIDINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; POTASSIUM; POTASSIUM CHANNELS, VOLTAGE-GATED; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SODIUM;

EID: 34247897164     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: 14716771     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/ael379     Document Type: Article

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