Intrathecal morphine reduces the visceromotor response to acute uterine cervical distension in an estrogen-independent manner

Anesthesiology

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1467-1471

  Shin, Sang Wook ^a,b   Eisenach, James C ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Pusan National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESPONSE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; INTRATHECAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LABOR PAIN; MUSCLE REFLEX; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OBSTETRIC ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; UTERINE CERVIX DILATATION;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CERVIX UTERI; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MORPHINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; OVARIECTOMY; PAIN; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; UTERUS;

EID: 0038781719     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200306000-00025     Document Type: Article

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