Ketamine Use for Cancer and Chronic Pain Management

Ketamine, an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, is widely known as a dissociative anesthetic and phencyclidine derivative. Due to an undesirable adverse event profile when used as an anesthetic it had widely fallen out of human use in favor of more modern agents. However, it has recently been...

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Main Authors: Clayton Culp, Hee Kee Kim, Salahadin Abdi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Pharmacology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2020.599721/full