Involvement of supraspinal and spinal segmental alpha-2-adrenergic mechanisms in the medetomidine-induced antinociception

A Pertovaara, TK Auppila, E Jyväsjärvi, E Kalso - Neuroscience, 1991 - Elsevier
antinociceptive effect of systemically applied medetomidine can be explained by supraspinal
alpha-2-adrenergic mechanisms… systemically administered alpha-2-adrenergic agonists …

The antinociceptive action of an α2-adrenoceptor agonist in the spinal dorsal horn is due to a direct spinal action and not to activation of descending inhibition

MM Hämälïnen, A Pertovaara - Brain research bulletin, 1995 - Elsevier
Involvement of supraspinal and spinal segmental alpha-2-adrenergic mechanisms in the
medetomidine-induced antinociception. Neuroscience 44:705714; 1991. …

The role of α2-adrenoceptors of the medullary lateral reticular nucleus in spinal antinociception in rats

H Mansikka, A Pertovaara - Brain research bulletin, 1995 - Elsevier
… the spinal antinociceptive effects with supraspinal ones, the medetomidine-induced effects
… Distributions of mRNAs for alpha-2 adrenergic receptor subtypes in rat brain: An in situ hy…

Spinal potentiation and supraspinal additivity in the antinociceptive interaction between systemically administered α2-adrenoceptor agonist and cocaine in the rat

A Pertovaara, MM Hämäläinen - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 1994 - journals.lww.com
… the supraspinal level there is an additive antinociceptive interaction … spinal level cocaine
potentiates the medetomidine-induced antinociception independent of supraspinal mechanisms

Dissociation of the α2-adrenergic antinociception from sedation following microinjection of medetomidine into the locus coeruleus in rats

A Pertovaara, MM Hämäläinen, T Kauppila, E Mecke… - Pain, 1994 - Elsevier
… a role in antinociception, as shown by antinociception at the … the hypothesis that
medetomidine-induced sedation is due to … supraspinally applied atipamezole dose, then a,-adrenergic …

The rostroventromedial medulla is not involved in α2-adrenoceptor-mediated antinociception in the rat

MM Hämäläinen, A Pertovaara - Neuropharmacology, 1993 - Elsevier
… be explained by spinal a,-adrenergic mechanisms. The medetomidine-induced increase of
… purpose was to study the role of a supraspinal structure in antinociception. In spinalized rats …

Antinociceptive properties of fadolmidine (MPV‐2426), a novel α2‐adrenoceptor agonist

A Pertovaara - CNS drug reviews, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… for the analgesic properties of alpha-2 adrenergic agonists. In… Involvement of supraspinal
and spinal segmental α2-adrenergic mechanisms in the medetomidine-induced antinociception

The Analgesic Potency of Dexmedetomidine Is Enhanced After Nerve Injury: A Possible Role for Peripheral alpha: 2-Adrenoceptors

LR Poree, TZ Guo, WS Kingery, M Maze - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 1998 - journals.lww.com
… is mediated at a spinal and, possibly, a supraspinal level, whereas … spinal nerve ligation
may have caused a local disruption of the blood-brain barrier at a segmental level in the spinal

α2-Adrenoceptor agonists and anesthesia

T Mizobe, M Maze - International anesthesiology clinics, 1995 - journals.lww.com
Involvement of supraspinal and spinal segmental alpha-2-adrenergic mechanisms in the
medetomidine-induced antinociception. Neuroscience 1991;44:705–714 Wang YC, Su CR, Lin …

Antinociception induced by alpha-2-adrenoceptor agonists, with special emphasis on medetomidine studies

A Pertovaara - Progress in neurobiology, 1993 - Elsevier
… Diencephalic mechanisms of pain sensation … Behavioral and receptor binding analysis of
the alpha-2-adrenergic … the gene coding for the human platelet alpha-2-adrenergic receptor …