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ArticleJournal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA2019

Synergistic symptom-specific effects of ketorolac-tramadol and ketorolac-pregabalin in a rat model of peripheral neuropathy.

Wen-Ying Lin, Yu-Ting Cheng, Yu-Hsin Huang, Feng-Sheng Lin, Wei-Zen Sun, Chen-Tung Yen

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Article in Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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  4. Reply "Co-analgesics for neuropathic pain in the rat model of spared nerve injury".Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2019
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  5. Co-analgesics for neuropathic pain in the rat model of spared nerve injury.Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA · 2019
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Wen-Ying LinDepartment of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Yu-Ting ChengDepartment of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Yu-Hsin HuangDepartment of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Feng-Sheng LinDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Wei-Zen SunDepartment of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
Chen-Tung YenDepartment of Life Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC.
National Taiwan University · TWNational Taiwan University Hospital · TW

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAlthough current neuropathic pain treatment guidelines do not recommend the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), whether NSAIDs can serve as a useful adjuvant to conventional multimodal therapy remains unclear.

methodsThe spared nerve injury (SNI) rats rapidly developed profound and long-lasting spontaneous and evoked pain behaviors, including mechanical and cold allodynia of the ipsilateral hind paw. At day 5, we first characterized the nociceptive responses to ketorolac, tramadol, pregabalin, and their combinations.

resultsWe found that tramadol and pregabalin exerted dose-dependent analgesic effects on both spontaneous and evoked behaviors. However, ketorolac alone did not suppress any behaviors regardless of the dose. Ketorolac-tramadol and ketorolac-pregabalin produced variable degrees of additive suppression of spontaneous and evoked behavioral responses. Cold allodynia was profoundly diminished after ketorolac was added to ineffective pregabalin or tramadol. Mechanical allodynia was markedly attenuated by ketorolac-pregabalin but less so by ketorolac-tramadol mixtures.

conclusionOur data demonstrated that an NSAID alone failed to relieve spontaneous or evoked pain behaviors in the rat SNI model, but when combined with a weak opioid and α-2-δ-ligand produced a profound synergistic analgesic effect on cold allodynia and discrepant efficacy for mechanical allodynia and spontaneous pain.

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AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDrug SynergismDrug Therapy, CombinationKetorolacMaleMeloxicamNeuralgiaPregabalinRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyTramadolKetorolacMeloxicamPregabalinTramadol

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