Involvement of the locus coeruleus in analgesic effects of a low dose of naloxone during the inflammatory process

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 166-170

  Tsuruoka, Masayoshi ^a,b   Willis, William D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b SHOWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Inflammation; Locus coeruleus; Naloxone; Rat

Indexed keywords

CARRAGEENAN; NALOXONE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAT SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; CARRAGEENAN; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HINDLIMB; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NALOXONE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0031911229     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050330     Document Type: Article

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