Safety Evaluation of Topically Applied Amitriptyline in Porcine Full-Thickness Wounds

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 377-381

  Pomahac, Bohdan ^a   Zuhaili, Bara ^a   Kudsi, Yusef ^a   Bleiziffer, Oliver ^a   Velander, Patrik ^a   Eriksson, Elof ^a   Gerner, Peter ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Full thickness wound; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BUPIVACAINE; NORTRIPTYLINE; POLYURETHAN; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG SAFETY; EPITHELIZATION; HEART RATE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWINE; WOUND CONTRACTION; WOUND HEALING;

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BODY FLUIDS; BUPIVACAINE; EPITHELIAL CELLS; INFLAMMATION; NECROSIS; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SWINE; WOUND HEALING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 35349023715     PISSN: 10987339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rapm.2007.06.003     Document Type: Article

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