The synergistic interaction between morphine and maprotiline after intrathecal injection in rats

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1312-1317

  Pettersen, Vera L A ^a   Zapata Sudo, Gisele ^a   Raimundo, Juliana M ^a   Trachez, Margarete M ^b   Sudo, Roberto T ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; AMITRIPTYLINE; CITALOPRAM; MAPROTILINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; SEVOFLURANE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; YOHIMBINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR AFFECTING AGENT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANTAGONIST; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NONHUMAN; POLYPHARMACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCREENING TEST; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; THERMAL WITHDRAWAL TEST; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG COMBINATION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; REACTION TIME; TIME;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; ADRENERGIC UPTAKE INHIBITORS; AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CITALOPRAM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG SYNERGISM; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MAPROTILINE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; TIME FACTORS; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 70349574587     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181b16ff5     Document Type: Article

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