Increase of preproenkephalin mRNA in the caudal part of periaqueductal gray by morphine withdrawal in rats: A quantitative in situ hybridization study

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 128-130

  Fukunaga, Yuko ^a   Nishida, Shigeru ^a   Inoue, Norihiro ^a   Kishioka, Shiroh ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hybridization, in situ; Morphine; Naloxone; Periaqueductal gray; Preproenkephalin mRNA; Rat; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; PREPROENKEPHALIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENE INDUCTION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030298475     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(96)00158-1     Document Type: Article

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