Comparison of the potency of lidocaine and chloroprocaine in sciatic nerve block in Sprague-Dawley rats

Pharmacology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 356-359

  Yung, Elliot ^a   Yarmush, Joel M ^a   Weinberg, Jonathan ^a   Schianodicola, Joseph J ^a   Ray, Sidhartha D ^b  

^a NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloroprocaine; Lidocaine; Relative potency; Sciatic block

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPROCAINE; LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG POTENCY; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; LIDOCAINE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; PROCAINE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SCIATIC NERVE;

EID: 65449183162     PISSN: 00317012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000217584     Document Type: Article

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