Evidence that spinal endogenous opioidergic systems control the expression of chronic pain-related behaviors in spinally injured rats

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 259-268

  Hao, Jing Xia ^a   Yu, Wei ^a   Xu, Xiao Jun ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Central pain; Endogenous opioids; Naloxone; Neuropathic pain; Rat; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLCYSTEINYLTYROSYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLORNITHYLTHREONYLPENICILLAMINYLTHREONINAMIDE 2,7 DISULFIDE; ENDORPHIN; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; NALOXONE; NALTRINDOLE; NORBINALTORPHIMINE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC PAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; FEMALE; INNERVATION; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLD; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SELF MUTILATION; SOMATOSTATIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0031962842     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002210050280     Document Type: Article

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