Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer, [1997], ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Appleton, I. (Ian)
• Besson, Jean-Marie R.
• Dickenson, A. H.

Description

xxii, 479 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; v. 130

Uniform Title

Handbook of experimental pharmacology ; v. 130.

Subject

• Analgesia
• Analgesics > pharmacology
• Anesthetics > pharmacology
• Nociceptors > drug effects
• Pain > drug therapy
• Pain
• Receptors, Neurotransmitter > drug effects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

3540627855 (alk. paper)

LCCN

97023531

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries