μ opioid receptors in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray mediate stress-induced analgesia but not immobility in rat pups

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 125-136

  Wiedenmayer, Christoph P ^a   Barr, Gordon A ^b  

^a Department of Neurology and the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAT; STRESS; THERMAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0034011297     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.114.1.125     Document Type: Article

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