Influence of ovarian sex steroids on spinal methionine-enkephalin release: Comparison with dynorphin reveals asymmetrical regulation

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 304, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 738-744

  Gupta, Daya S ^a   Gintzler, Alan R ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1 (1 CYCLOOCTYLMETHYL 3 HYDROXYMETHYL 4 PIPERIDYL) 3 ETHYL 1,3 DIHYDRO 2H BENZIMIDAZOL 2 ONE; 3,4 DICHLORO N METHYL N [2 (1 PYRROLIDINYL)CYCLOHEXYL]BENZENEACETAMIDE; DYNORPHIN; ESTRADIOL; KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; METENKEPHALIN; NALOXONE; NOCICEPTIN; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; SIGMA OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE RELEASE; LUMBAR SPINE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY FUNCTION; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING;

ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DYNORPHINS; ENKEPHALIN, METHIONINE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; OVARY; PROGESTERONE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0037310907     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.102.042689     Document Type: Article

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