Article
A human oral capsaicin pain model to assess topical anesthetic-analgesic drugs.
Neuroscience letters - 28 Dec 2001
Ngom P I, Dubray C, Woda A, Dallel R
Abstract excerpt
Repeated application of capsaicin on the tongue has been used as a human oral pain model to assess topical anesthetic-analgesic drugs. The reliability of the model was evaluated by observing the variability of the response to repeated applications of capsaicin after three successive sessions at 1 day intervals. No session effect was observed for the time course of the visual analogue scale (VAS) scores and the...
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