Endogenous opioid-mediated inhibition of putative pain-modulating neurons in rat rostral ventromedial medulla

Neuroscience

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 855-862

  Pan, Z Z ^a   Fields, H L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Bicuculline; Endogenous opioid; Naloxone; Pain modulation; Rostral ventromedial medulla

Indexed keywords

BICUCULLINE; CLONIDINE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030564953     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0306-4522(96)00179-0     Document Type: Article

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