Gabapentin's anti-nausea and anti-emetic effects: A review

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 232, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2535-2539

  Guttuso, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpha 2 delta; Calcium; Emesis; Nausea; Neurontin; Review; Vomiting

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ANTIEMETIC ACTIVITY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG TARGETING; DRUG USE; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; MEDLINE; POSTDURAL PUNCTURE HEADACHE; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; ANIMAL; NAUSEA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VOMITING; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

AMINES; ANIMALS; ANTIEMETICS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MEDLINE; NAUSEA; VOMITING;

EID: 84905569729     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-014-3905-1     Document Type: Review

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