Inhibition of noxious stimulus-evoked pain behaviors and neuronal fos-like immunoreactivity in the spinal cord of the rat by supraspinal morphine

Pain

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 9-15

  Gogas, K R ^a,b,c   Cho, H J ^a,e   Botchkina, G I ^a,d   Levine, J D ^a,b   Basbaum, A I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ROCHE BIOSCIENCE   (United States)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Antinociception; C Fos; Formalin test; Morphine; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030131077     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3959(95)00141-7     Document Type: Article

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