Brainstem injection of lidocaine releases the descending pain-inhibitory mechanisms in a rat model of mononeuropathy

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 237, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 180-190

  Saadé, Nayef E ^a   Al Amin, Hassen A ^b   Barchini, Jad ^a   Tchachaghian, Sima ^a   Shamaa, Farah ^a   Jabbur, Suhayl J ^a   Atweh, Samir F ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

5HT; Catecholamines; Descending inhibition; GABA; Neuropathic pain; RVM

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BICUCULLINE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCINE; GLYCINE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; KETANSERIN; LIDOCAINE; METHYSERGIDE; NORADRENALIN; PHENTOALMINE; PICROTOXIN; PROPRANOLOL; SACLOFEN; SEROTONIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YOHIMBINE;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME RELEASE; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MONONEUROPATHY; MYELENCEPHALON; NERVE INJURY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROSTRAL VENTROMEDIAL MEDULLA; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; COLD TEMPERATURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HOT TEMPERATURE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; LIDOCAINE; MICROINJECTIONS; MONONEUROPATHIES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84863837811     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.06.021     Document Type: Article

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