No heroin or morphine 6β-glucuronide analgesia in μ-opioid receptor knockout mice

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 355, Issue 1, 1998, Pages

  Kitanaka, Nobue ^a   Sora, Ichiro ^a   Kinsey, Stephen ^a   Zeng, Zhizhen ^a   Uhl, George R ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphine; Opiate; Pain

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MORPHINE 6 GLUCURONIDE; RECEPTOR SUBTYPE; MORPHINE DERIVATIVE; MORPHINE-6-GLUCURONIDE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; HOMOZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; HEROIN; HOMOZYGOTE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MORPHINE DERIVATIVES; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU;

EID: 0031667577     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2999(98)00516-0     Document Type: Article

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