Interactions between vasopressin and mu-opioid systems in the rat fetus

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 217-230

  Petrov, Evgeniy S ^a   Varlinskaya, Elena I ^a   Smotherman, William P ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Russian Federation)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal behavior; Mu opioid system; Vasopressin V1 receptor

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; FETUS MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030185360     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(96)00018-2     Document Type: Article

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