Gabapentin for spasticity and autonomic dysreflexia after severe spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 99-105

  Rabchevsky, A G ^a,b   Patel, S P ^a,b   Duale, H ^a,b   Lyttle, T S ^a   O'Dell, C R ^a   Kitzman, P H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Department of Physiology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; hyper reflexia; hypertension; Neurontin; pain; spasms

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MONOTHERAPY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TELEMETRY; THORACIC SPINE;

AMINES; ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 78651310796     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2010.67     Document Type: Article

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