Effects of intrathecally administered nociceptin, an opioid receptor-like1 (ORL1) receptor agonist, on the thermal hyperalgesia induced by carageenan injection into the rat paw

Brain Research

Volumn 754, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 329-332

  Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a   Nozaki Taguchi, Natsuko ^a   Kimura, Sadao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

carageenan test; nociceptin; opioid receptor like1 receptor; spinal facilitation; thermal hyperalgesia

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPERALGESIA; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CARRAGEENAN; HEAT; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0030937927     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00186-8     Document Type: Article

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