Ingested placenta blocks the effect of morphine on gut transit in Long-Evans rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1016, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 217-221

  Corpening, James W ^a,b   Doerr, Jean C ^a   Kristal, Mark B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b C/o Dakota Therapeutics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Constipation; Endocrine and autonomic regulation; Gastrointestinal and urogenital regulation; Gut transit; Morphine; Mu; Opioid; Placenta

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; PLACENTA EXTRACT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; HYPOTHESIS; INGESTION; INJECTION; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; MORPHINE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 3042856551     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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