Naltrexone modifies thermoregulatory symptoms and lessens the severity of heat stroke in guinea pigs

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 813, Issue , 1997, Pages 548-552

  Romanovsky, Andrej A ^a,b   Blatteis, Clark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b LEGACY RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDORPHIN; NALTREXONE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GUINEA PIG; HEAT STROKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; SHOCK; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SYMPTOM; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; CAVIA; CAVIA PORCELLUS; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0030890914     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51745.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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