Activation of coeruleospinal noradrenergic inhibitory controls during withdrawal from morphine in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 4393-4402

  Rohde, Dana S ^b,c   Basbaum, Allan I ^a,b  

^a Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Descending inhibition; Fos; Locus coeruleus; Morphine withdrawal; Saporin; Spinal cord; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0032101687     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-11-04393.1998     Document Type: Article

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