Red-hot chili peppers: A spicy new approach to preventing postoperative pain

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 6-8

  White, Paul F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; CAPSAICIN; CIS CAPSAICIN; LIDOCAINE ETHOBROMIDE; OLVANIL; RESINIFERATOXIN; VANILLOID RECEPTOR; VANILLOID RECEPTOR 1; DITERPENE; TRPV1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANALGESIA; BINDING SITE; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG STRUCTURE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMA; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; NOTE; PEPPER; PHYSIOLOGY;

CAPSAICIN; CAPSICUM; DITERPENES; HUMANS; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; TRPV CATION CHANNELS;

EID: 49849104753     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181753276     Document Type: Editorial

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