Morphological evidence of endomorphin as an agonist for the mu-opioid receptor in the rat spinal cord

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-110

  Wang, Qing Ping ^a   Zadina, James E ^b,c   Guan, Jian Lian ^a   Shioda, Seiji ^a,c  

^a SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Immunocytochemistry; Immunostaining; Synapse; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

ENDOMORPHIN 2; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0344522711     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00182-4     Document Type: Article

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