Morphine and gabapentin decrease mechanical hyperalgesia and escape/avoidance behavior in a rat model of neuropathic pain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 137-140

  Labuda, Christopher J ^a   Fuchs, Perry N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Avoidance; Mechanical hyperalgesia; Motivation; Place preference

Indexed keywords

GABAPENTIN; MORPHINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTIVATION; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETIC ACIDS; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MORPHINE; NERVE CRUSH; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0034714592     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(00)01340-9     Document Type: Article

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