Evaluation of dosages and routes of administration of tramadol analgesia in rats using hot-plate and tail-flick tests

Lab Animal

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 342-351

  Cannon, Coralie Zegre ^a   Kissling, Grace E ^a   Hoenerhoff, Mark J ^a   King Herbert, Angela P ^a   Blankenship Paris, Terry ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; TRAMADOL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; GERMFREE ANIMAL; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METABOLISM; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIFIC PATHOGEN-FREE ORGANISMS; TRAMADOL;

RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77958497582     PISSN: 00937355     EISSN: 15484475     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/laban1110-342     Document Type: Article

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