Differential effects of intrathecally administered delta and mu opioid receptor agonists on formalin-evoked nociception and on the expression of Fos-like immunoreactivity in the spinal cord of the rat

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 284, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 378-387

  Hammond, Donna L ^a   Wang, Huilan ^b   Nakashima, Nora ^b   Basbaum, Allan I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

7 BENZYLIDENENALTREXONE; DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; DELTORPHIN; DELTORPHIN[2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 GLUTAMINE]; DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLCYSTEINYLTYROSYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLORNITHYLTHREONYLPENICILLAMINYLTHREONINAMIDE 2,7 DISULFIDE; ENKEPHALIN[2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; ENKEPHALIN[2,5 DEXTRO PENICILLAMINE]; FORMALDEHYDE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; NALTRIBEN; PROTEIN C FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ENKEPHALIN, ALA(2)-MEPHE(4)-GLY(5)-; ENKEPHALIN, D-PENICILLAMINE (2,5)-; ENKEPHALINS; FORMALDEHYDE; MALE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SPINAL CORD;

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