GABAergic modulation of nociceptive threshold: effects of THIP and bicuculline microinjected in the ventral medulla of the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 450, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 316-324

  Drower, Edward J ^a   Hammond, Donna L ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

4,5,6,7 Tetrahydroisoxazolo 5,4 c pyridin 3 ol; Antinociception; Bicuculline; Hyperalgesia; Nucleus raphe magnus; Nucleus reticularis gigantocellularis pars alpha; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; GABOXADOL; LIDOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; GIGANTOCELLULAR RETICULAR NUCLEUS; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE NUCLEUS; RAT;

ANIMAL; BICUCULLINE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ISOXAZOLES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; OXAZOLES; PAIN; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; REACTION TIME; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0023876234     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(88)91570-3     Document Type: Article

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