Tolerance to the antinociceptive effect of morphine microinjections into the ventral but not lateral-dorsal periaqueductal gray of the rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 833-839

  Tortorici, Victor ^a,b   Robbins, Carolyn S ^a   Morgan, Michael M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERANCE; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DRUG TOLERANCE; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHINE; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0032887188     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.113.4.833     Document Type: Article

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