Morphine tolerance and dependence in the nucleus paragigantocellularis: Single unit recording study in vivo

Brain Research

Volumn 814, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 71-77

  Haghparast, Abbas ^a   Semnanian, Saeed ^a,b   Fathollahi, Yaghoub ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Morphine; Morphine tolerance and dependence; Naloxone; Nucleus paragigantocellularis; Opiate withdrawal; Single unit recording

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG TOLERANCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IN VIVO STUDY; LOCUS CERULEUS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DRUG TOLERANCE; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS;

EID: 0032517788     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)01029-4     Document Type: Article

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