Pain Modulation and Autonomic Function: The Effect of Clonidine | Zendy

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Pain Modulation and Autonomic Function: The Effect of Clonidine

Author(s) -

Hadas NahmanAverbuch,

Lior Dayan,

Elliot Sprecher,

Uri Hochberg,

Silviu Brill,

David Yarnitsky,

Giris Jacob

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893

H-Index - 97

eISSN - 1526-4637

pISSN - 1526-2375

DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnv102

Subject(s) - clonidine , anesthesia , placebo , analgesic , medicine , heart rate , anxiety , tonic (physiology) , heart rate variability , psychology , blood pressure , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry

The α2-agonist clonidine is an analgesic agent, whose yet uncertain action may involve either increase in pain modulation efficiency, change in autonomic function, and/or decrease in anxiety level. The present study aimed to examine the effect of oral clonidine on pain perception in healthy subjects in order to reveal its mode of action.

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