Pretreatment with intrathecal amitriptyline potentiates anti-hyperalgesic effects of post-injury intra-peritoneal amitriptyline following spinal nerve ligation

BMC Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cheng, Kuang I ^a,b   Wang, Hung Chen ^a   Chang, Lin Li ^a   Wang, Fu Yen ^a,b   Lai, Chung Sheng ^a,b   Chou, Chao Wen ^a   Tsai, Hung Pei ^a   Kwan, Aij Lie ^a,b  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Allodynia; Astrocyte; Intrathecal amitriptyline; Microglia; Sodium channels

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PREMEDICATION; RAT; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL GANGLION; SPINAL NERVE LIGATION;

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANIMALS; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LIGATION; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PREMEDICATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84862507616     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-12-44     Document Type: Article

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