Mexiletine and lidocaine suppress the excitability of dorsal horn neurons

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 258-264

  Olschewski, Andrea ^a,b   Schnoebel Ehehalt, Rose ^a   Li, Yingji ^b,c   Tang, Bi ^b,c   Bräu, Michael E ^a   Wolff, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; POTASSIUM ION; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM ION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CELL TYPE; CHANNEL GATING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; IC 50; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; POSTERIOR HORN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA GELATINOSA; VOLTAGE CLAMP; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; LIDOCAINE; MALE; MEXILETINE; NEURAL INHIBITION; POSTERIOR HORN CELLS; RATS;

EID: 67650687022     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181a3d5d8     Document Type: Article

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