The pharmacology of pain / editors, A. Dickenson and J.-M. Besson ; contributors, I. Appleton [and others].

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; v. 130.
Other Authors: Dickenson, A. H.
Besson, Jean-Marie R.
Appleton, I. (Ian)
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1997], ©1997.
Series:Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; v. 130.
Subjects:
Pain.
Analgesia.
Pain > drug therapy.
Nociceptors > drug effects.
Receptors, Neurotransmitter > drug effects.
Analgesics > pharmacology.
Anesthetics > pharmacology.
Physical Description:xxii, 479 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Animal models of analgesia
  • Peripheral mediators of pain
  • Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and pain
  • The sympathetic nervous system and pain
  • Excitability blockers: anticonvulsants and low concentration local anesthetics in the treatment of chronic pain
  • Tachykinins: central and peripheral effects
  • Growth factors and pain
  • Mechanisms of central hypersensitivity: excitatory amino acid mechanisms and their control
  • Novel modulators in noiciception
  • Pharmacological studies of nociceptive systems using the C-fos immunohistochemical technique: an indicator of noxiously activated spinal neurones
  • Molecular aspect of opioid receptors
  • Opioid pharmacology of acute and chronic pain
  • Opioid problems, and morphine metabolism and excretion
  • Inhibitory neurotransmitters and nociception: role of GABA and glycine
  • The role of descending noradrenergic and serontoninergic pathways in the modulation of nociception: focus on receptor multiplicity
  • Neonatal pharmacology of pain.