Pharmacokinetics of buccal and intranasal lorazepam in healthy adult volunteers

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-159

  Anderson, Mark ^a   Tambe, Parag ^b   Sammons, Helen ^b   Mulla, Hussain ^c   Cole, Richard ^c   Choonara, Imti ^b  

^a Infectious Diseases Allergy   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Neurology; Pharmacology; Seizures

Indexed keywords

LORAZEPAM;

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BAD TASTE; BURNING SENSATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISTRIBUTION VOLUME; DROWSINESS; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG CLEARANCE; DRUG HALF LIFE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NOSE BURNING SENSATION; OPEN STUDY; PLASMA CONCENTRATION-TIME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; SNEEZING; SOMNOLENCE; TASTE; TIME TO MAXIMUM PLASMA CONCENTRATION;

ABSORPTION; ADMINISTRATION, BUCCAL; ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; ANTICONVULSANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HUMANS; LORAZEPAM; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857052811     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: 14321041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00228-011-1109-1     Document Type: Article

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