Challenges in analgesic drug development

Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 447-450

  Hewitt, D J ^a   Hargreaves, R J ^a   Curtis, S P ^a   Michelson, D ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PLACEBO EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG DISCOVERY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 70349466540     PISSN: 00099236     EISSN: 15326535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/clpt.2009.161     Document Type: Article

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