Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs antagonise the constipating effects of tramadol

Autor: Eulalia Planas, Margarita M. Puig, Asunción Romero, Raquel Poveda, Silvia Sánchez
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: European journal of pharmacology. 482(1-3)
ISSN: 0014-2999
Popis: We report an antagonistic interaction between tramadol and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), on gastrointestinal transit in rats. Transit was evaluated with charcoal and results are expressed as %inhibition. Tramadol and morphine had ED(50)s of 120.70+/-9.54 and 3.20+/-0.26 mg/kg, respectively, while metamizol (85 mg/kg), paracetamol (100 mg/kg) or ibuprofen (50 mg/kg) had no effect. All combinations of tramadol plus an NSAID, resulted in a rightward, non-parallel shift of the curves, which showed (two-way analysis of variance, ANOVA) significant differences from tramadol alone for the dose (P
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