Local administration of morphine decreases the extracellular level of GABA in the periaqueductal gray matter of freely moving rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 209, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 165-168

  Stiller, Carl Olav ^a   Bergquist, Jonas ^b   Beck, Olof ^c   Ekman, Rolf ^b   Brodin, Ernst ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Morphine; Pain inhibitory pathway; Periaqueductal gray matter; Rat; Aminobutyric acid

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0029901490     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3940(96)12638-0     Document Type: Article

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