Analgesia

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Stein, Christoph (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Σειρά: Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology, 177
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Pharmacology.; Anesthesiology.; Rheumatology.; Neurosurgery.; Surgery.; Psychology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Psychology, general.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.