Analgesia
Analgesics are among the oldest drugs described, albeit not necessarily for medicinaluse. Forexample,theSumeriansisolatedopioids(probablyfortheir euphoric effects) in the third millennium b. c. and the use of willow bark (salicin) for fever was ?rst reported in the eighteenth century. Both types of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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Edición: | 1st ed. 2007. |
Colección: | Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology,
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Peripheral and Central Mechanisms of Pain Generation
- Drugs in Clinical Use
- Opioids
- Antipyretic Analgesics: Nonsteroidal Antiinflammatory Drugs, Selective COX-2 Inhibitors, Paracetamol and Pyrazolinones
- Local Anesthetics
- Serotonin Receptor Ligands: Treatments of Acute Migraine and Cluster Headache
- Anti-convulsants and Anti-depressants
- Compounds in Preclinical Development
- Neuropeptide and Kinin Antagonists
- Glutamate Receptor Ligands
- Adrenergic and Cholinergic Compounds
- Cannabinoids and Pain
- Future Targets in Analgesia Research
- Adenosine and ATP Receptors
- Ion Channels in Analgesia Research
- Protein Kinases as Potential Targets for the Treatment of Pathological Pain
- Pain Management Beyond Pharmacotherapy
- Placebo and Endogenous Mechanisms of Analgesia
- Limitations of Pharmacotherapy: Behavioral Approaches to Chronic Pain.