MU-opioid receptor-knockout mice: Role of μ-opioid receptor in morphine mediated immune functions

Molecular Brain Research

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 190-194

  Roy, Sabita ^a   Barke, Roderick A ^a   Loh, Horace H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Opioid receptor; Knockout; Macrophage; Morphine; T cells

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 6; MORPHINE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DRUG MECHANISM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; THYMOCYTE;

3,4-DICHLORO-N-METHYL-N-(2-(1-PYRROLIDINYL)-CYCLOHEXYL)-BENZENEACETAMIDE, (TRANS)-ISOMER; ANIMALS; BINDING, COMPETITIVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG IMPLANTS; EXONS; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-2; LIGANDS; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MACROPHAGES, PERITONEAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MITOGENS; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; ORGAN SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SPLEEN; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; THYMIDINE; THYMUS GLAND; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0032582829     PISSN: 0169328X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-328X(98)00212-5     Document Type: Article

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