Gestational and ovarian sex steroid antinociception: Synergy between spinal κ and δ opioid systems

Brain Research

Volumn 794, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-67

  Dawson Basoa, Mary ^a   Gintzler, Alan R ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Psychiatry   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Estrogen; Gender; Pregnancy; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR SENSITIVITY;

ANIMALS; BENZYLIDENE COMPOUNDS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OVARY; PAIN THRESHOLD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0032565648     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00192-9     Document Type: Article

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