Correlation between body weight changes and postoperative pain in rats treated with meloxicam or buprenorphine

Lab Animal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 87-93

  Brennan, Matthew P ^a   Sinusas, Albert J ^a   Horvath, Tamas L ^a   Collins, J G ^a   Harding, Martha J ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; MELOXICAM; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; THIAZINE DERIVATIVE; THIAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; LEWIS RAT; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RAT; THORACOTOMY; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BODY WEIGHT; BUPRENORPHINE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; THIAZINES; THIAZOLES; THORACOTOMY; WEIGHT GAIN;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 60849121124     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban0309-87     Document Type: Article

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