Analgesic effects of tramadol, tramadol-gabapentin, and buprenorphine in an incisional model of pain in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 192-197

  McKeon, Gabriel P ^a   Pacharinsak, Cholawat ^a   Long, Charles T ^a   Howard, Antwain M ^a   Jampachaisri, Katechan ^b   Yeomans, David C ^a   Felt, Stephen A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NARESUAN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUPRENORPHINE; GABAPENTIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRAMADOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RAT; WEIGHT BEARING;

AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BUPRENORPHINE; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TRAMADOL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 79953814907     PISSN: 15596109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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