Chronic morphine reduces pain-related disability in a rodent model of chronic, inflammatory pain

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-197

  Lindner, Mark D ^a,b   Plone, Melissa A ^a   Francis, Jonathan M ^a   Cain, Chris K ^a  

^a CytoTherapeutics Incorporated   (United States)

^b NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADJUVANT ARTHRITIS; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; DISABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERANCE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MORPHINE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0032792816     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.7.3.187     Document Type: Article

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