Nontricyclic antidepressant analgesics and pain: Are serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs) any better?

Pain

Volumn 152, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2206-2210

  Watson, C Peter N ^a   Gilron, Ian ^b   Sawynok, Jana ^c   Lynch, Mary E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; CANNABINOID; DULOXETINE; GABAPENTIN; IMIPRAMINE; MILNACIPRAN; OPIATE; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ANOREXIA; ASTHENIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FIBROMYALGIA; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTENSION; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MIGRAINE; NAUSEA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAINFUL DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEIZURE; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; SOMNOLENCE; SWEATING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TENSION HEADACHE; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; CHRONIC PAIN; HUMANS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 80053204626     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.05.032     Document Type: Review

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