Tramadol reduces anxiety-related and depression-associated behaviors presumably induced by pain in the chronic constriction injury model of neuropathic pain in rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 124, Issue , 2014, Pages 290-296

  Caspani, Ombretta ^a   Reitz, Marie Céline ^a   Ceci, Angelo ^b   Kremer, Andreas ^b   Treede, Rolf Detlef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Elevated plus maze; Forced swimming test; Neuropathic pain; Tramadol

Indexed keywords

TRAMADOL; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC CONSTRICTION INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTRONICS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FORCED SWIM TEST; IMMOBILITY; MALE; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHAM PROCEDURE; TIME; VON FREY TEST; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; NEURALGIA; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DEPRESSION; MALE; NEURALGIA; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TRAMADOL;

EID: 84904575364     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2014.06.018     Document Type: Article

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