Chronic exposure to morphine decreases physiologically active corticosterone in both male and female rats but by different mechanisms

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 286, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 875-882

  Nock, Bruce ^a   Cicero, Theodore J ^b   Wich, Michele ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

18 HYDROXYDEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; ALDOSTERONE; CORTICOSTERONE; DEOXYCORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE 3 GLUCURONIDE; MORPHINE 6 GLUCURONIDE; PLACEBO; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCORTIN;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADRENALECTOMY; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION, CHEMICAL; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSCORTIN;

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