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A simple thermal pain model for the evaluation of analgesic activity in healthy subjects

Sunil Kumar Reddy Khambam1, Mur Naidu, P Usha Rani

  • 1Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, ICMR Advance Centre for Clinical Pharmacodynamic, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Journal of Anaesthesiology, Clinical Pharmacology
|May 5, 2012
PubMed
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Keywords:
Analgesiaexperimentalheat painpharmacodynamicstramadol

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