Flupirtine: A Human Drug with Potential for Use in the Veterinary Field
- 1 University of Pisa, Italy
- 2 The University of Queensland, Australia
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.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajavsp.2012.213.217
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.
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Keywords
- Animal Species
- Painkiller Drug
- Veterinary
- Flupirtine