Flupirtine: A Human Drug with Potential for Use in the Veterinary Field
Mario Giorgi and Helen Owen
DOI : 10.3844/ajavsp.2012.213.217
American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Volume 7, Issue 4
Pages 213-217
Abstract
Flupirtine is a nonopioid drug without antipyretic or antiphlogistic properties and with a favorable tolerability in humans. It constitutes a unique class within the group of nonsteroidal analgesics and displays a peculiar pharmacokinetic/dynamic profile that could have large potentialities of applications in the veterinary field. This review describes and evaluates the pharmacologic literature concerning flupirtine and addresses its potential in veterinary medicine.
Copyright
© 2012 Mario Giorgi and Helen Owen. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
