Involvement of serotoninergic mechanism in analgesia by castration and flutamide, a testosterone antagonist, in the rat formalin test

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-14

  Nayebi, Ali Reza Mohajjel ^a   Rezazadeh, Hassan ^a  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Castration; Fluoxetine; Flutamide; Formalin test

Indexed keywords

5,7 DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; FLUOXETINE; FLUTAMIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; NALOXONE;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346655101     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2003.09.009     Document Type: Article

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