Concomitant use of tramadol and venlafaxine - Evaluation of antidepressant-like activity and other behavioral effects in rats

Pharmacological Reports

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1350-1358

  Szkutnik Fiedler, Danuta ^a   Kus, Krzysztof ^a   Balcerkiewicz, Monika ^a   Grzesḱowiak, Edmund ^a   Nowakowska, Elzbieta ^a   Burda, Kinga ^a   Ratajczak, Piotr ^a   Sadowski, Czesław ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Antidepressant effect; Motor coordination; Rats; Tramadol; Venlafaxine

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; TRAMADOL; VENLAFAXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SWIMMING;

EID: 84873710943     PISSN: 22995684     EISSN: 22995684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1734-1140(12)70932-5     Document Type: Article

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