Systemic administration of naloxone produces analgesia in BALB/c mice in the formalin pain test

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 103-107

  Vaccarino, Anthony L ^a   Tasker, R A R ^a   Melzack, Ronald ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analgesia; BALB c mouse; Formalin pain; Naloxone; Strain comparison; Tail flick

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; NALOXONE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; NALOXONE; PAIN MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0023492440     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(88)90345-X     Document Type: Article

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