Verapamil prevents withdrawal excitation of oxytocin neurones in morphine-dependent rats

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1596-1607

  Blackburn Munro, Gordon ^a   Brown, Colin H ^a   Neumann, Inga D ^b   Landgraf, Rainer ^b   Russell, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CCK8S; Naloxone; Nifedipine; Osmotic stimulation; Suckling; Voltage dependent Ca2+ channels

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE; NALOXONE; NIFEDIPINE; VERAPAMIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; INFUNDIBULUM; LACTATION; MICRODIALYSIS; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CALCIUM CHANNELS, L-TYPE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LACTATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICRODIALYSIS; MORPHINE; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NARCOTICS; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SINCALIDE; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; SUCCINIMIDES; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0034027797     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3908(99)00232-4     Document Type: Article

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