Picrotoxin produces a 'central' pain-like syndrome when microinjected into the somato-motor cortex of the rat

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1425-1434

  Oliveras, Jean Louis ^a   Montagne Clavel, Jacqueline ^a  

^a U de Rech de Physpharmacol du S   (France)

Author keywords

Central pain; Cortex; Epilepsy; Picrotoxin; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; FORMALDEHYDE; NALOXONE; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 0030561204     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00244-2     Document Type: Article

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