Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamic effects of meloxicam in piglets subjected to a kaolin inflammation model

Journal of Veterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 367-375

  Fosse, T K ^a   Spadavecchia, C ^b   Horsberg, T E ^a   Haga, H A ^a   Ranheim, B ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KAOLIN; MELOXICAM; PLACEBO;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG HALF LIFE; FEMALE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; METACARPAL BONE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PIGLET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FEVER; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; KAOLIN; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THIAZINES; THIAZOLES;

EID: 79960098232     PISSN: 01407783     EISSN: 13652885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2885.2010.01237.x     Document Type: Article

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