The effects of morphine-induced increases in extracellular acetylcholine levels in the rostral ventrolateral medulla of rat

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 289, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1539-1544

  Taguchi, Kyoji ^a   Kato, Masatoshi ^a   Kikuta, Jun ^a   Abe, Kenji ^a   Chikuma, Toshiyuki ^a   Utsunomiya, Iku ^a   Miyatake, Tadashi ^a  

^a SHOWA PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEOSTIGMINE;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; DRUG MECHANISM; HOT PLATE TEST; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WATER IMMERSION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICRODIALYSIS; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NEOSTIGMINE; PAIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TETRODOTOXIN;

EID: 0032992842     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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