The effect of morphine on responses of ventrolateral orbital cortex (VLO) neurons to colorectal distension in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 808, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 101-105

  Yang, Shou Wei ^a   Follett, Kenneth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Opiate; Supraspinal; Visceral

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLORECTAL DISEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; INTESTINE DISTENSION; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VISCERAL PAIN;

ANIMALS; COLON; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MALE; MORPHINE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NEURONS; PAIN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECTUM;

EID: 0032511831     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00804-X     Document Type: Article

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