Acute and chronic morphine alters formalin pain in neonatal rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 400, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 154-157

  Zissen, Maurice H ^a   Zhang, Guohua ^b   Kendig, Joan J ^a   Sweitzer, Sarah M ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Physiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Formalin; Morphine; Neonatal rats; Pain

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE; OPIATE;

ABSTINENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NEWBORN; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; OSMOTIC PUMP; PAIN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FORMALDEHYDE; MALE; MORPHINE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33646144197     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.02.039     Document Type: Article

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