Contralateral effect of amitriptyline and bupivacaine for sciatic nerve block in an animal model of inflammation

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 705-709

  Estebe, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Gentili, M E ^a   Le Corre, P ^a   Leduc, C ^a   Moulinoux, J P ^a   Ecoffey, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b Hotel Dieu CHU Rennes   (France)

Author keywords

Anaesthetics local, bupivacaine; Anaesthetics local, bupivacaine loaded microspheres; Analgesics, non opioid; Model, rat; Pain, mechanism

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BUPIVACAINE; CARRAGEENAN; DEXAMETHASONE SODIUM PHOSPHATE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; LONG ACTING DRUG; MICROSPHERE; SODIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANESTHESIA MECHANISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SUSPENSION;

EID: 7444260850     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aeh264     Document Type: Article

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