Opioid Modulation of Scratching and Spinal c-fos Expression Evoked by Intradermal Serotonin

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 34, 2003, Pages 10784-10790

  Nojima, Hiroshi ^a   Simons, Christopher T ^b   Cuellar, Jason M ^b   Carstens, Mirela Iodi ^b   Moore, Justin A ^b   Carstens, Earl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

C fos immunoreactivity; Itch; Morphine; Naltrexone; Rat; Scratching; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

CAPSAICIN; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INJECTION SITE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RAT; SCRATCHING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN;

EID: 0345491882     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-34-10784.2003     Document Type: Article

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