Pre-operative versus postoperative administration of morphine: Impact on the neuroendocrine, behavioural, and metastatic-enhancing effects of surgery

British Journal of Anaesthesia

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 216-223

  Page, Gayle Giboney ^c   Mcdonald, John S ^a   Ben Eliyahu, Shamgar ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c University College of Nursing   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesics opioid, morphine; Immune response, natural killer cells; Rat; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; HALOTHANE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BREAST ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; HOST RESISTANCE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG CLEARANCE; MALE; METASTASIS; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0031873014     PISSN: 00070912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bja/81.2.216     Document Type: Article

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