Opioid receptor antagonism during early lactation results in the increased duration of nursing bouts

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 211-216

  Byrnes, E M ^a   Rigero, B A ^a   Bridges, R S ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Lactation; Maternal behavior; Naloxone; Opioids

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GROOMING; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; NURSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LACTATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID;

EID: 0034661074     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(00)00231-6     Document Type: Article

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