Electroacupuncture Facilitates Recovery of Male Sexual Behavior in Morphine Withdrawal Rats

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 397-401

  Cui, Guo Hong ^a,b   Ren, Xiao Wei ^a   Wu, Liu Zhen ^a   Han, Ji Sheng ^a   Cui, Cai Lian ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electroacupuncture; Morphine dependent withdrawal; Sexual behavior; Total serum testosterone

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONOPHARMACOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; HORMONAL REGULATION; INJECTION; MALE; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 1242336755     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:NERE.0000013743.53827.ad     Document Type: Article

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