The opioid receptor antagonist, naloxone, enhances ocular motor compensation in guinea pig following peripheral vestibular deafferentation

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 141-144

  Dutia, Mayank B ^a   Gilchrist, Darrin P D ^b   Sansom, Andrew J ^b,c   Smith, Paul F ^c   Darlington, Cynthia L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GUINEA PIG; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABYRINTHECTOMY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM;

EID: 0030249206     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0147     Document Type: Article

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