Epidural opioid analgesia in infant rats I: Mechanical and heat responses

Pain

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-32

  Marsh, Deborah ^a,b   Dickenson, Anthony ^a   Hatch, David ^b   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Child Heath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Development; Epidural; Opioid; Paediatric pain; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

DELTA OPIATE RECEPTOR; ENKEPHALIN[2,5 DEXTRO PENICILLAMINE]; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; N METHYL N [7 (1 PYRROLIDINYL) 1 OXASPIRO[4.5]DEC 8 YL]BENZENEACETAMIDE; OPIATE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; MALE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL EXPOSURE;

ANALGESIA, EPIDURAL; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BENZENEACETAMIDES; ENKEPHALIN, D-PENICILLAMINE (2,5)-; ENKEPHALINS; FEMALE; MALE; MORPHINE; PYRROLIDINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, DELTA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0033028933     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3959(99)00028-7     Document Type: Article

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