Effect of chronic morphine treatment on the biosynthesis of agmatine in rat brain and other tissues

Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 14, 2002, Pages 1695-1701

  Aricioglu Kartal, Feyza ^a   Regunathan, Soundar ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agmatine; Drug abuse; Morphine; Opioids

Indexed keywords

AGMATINASE; AGMATINE; ARGININE DECARBOXYLASE; ENZYME; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG TOLERANCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; INTESTINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE LEVEL; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

AGMATINE; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CARBOXY-LYASES; MALE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0037162958     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(02)01911-2     Document Type: Article

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