Analgesic treatment with pregabalin does not prevent persistent pain after peripheral nerve injury in the rat

Pain

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 356-366

  Yang, Fang ^a   Whang, John ^a   Derry, William T ^b,c   Vardeh, Daniel ^b   Scholz, Joachim ^a,d  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Neuropathic pain; Postoperative pain; Pregabalin; Preventive analgesia

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE P38; PREGABALIN; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; TREATMENT DURATION;

NEUROPATHIC PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PREGABALIN; PREVENTIVE ANALGESIA;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CHRONIC PAIN; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84892817736     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.10.024     Document Type: Article

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