Intermittent lumbar puncture in rats: A novel method for the experimental study of opioid tolerance

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 714-720

  Xu, Jijun J ^a,b   Walla, Brittan C ^a   Diaz, Miguel F ^a   Fuller, Gregory N ^a   Gutstein, Howard B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; OPIATE; NARCOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG TOLERANCE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; INFLAMMATION; INTRASPINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PUNCTURE; SPINAL CORD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DRUG TOLERANCE; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL PUNCTURE; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

EID: 33749061340     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000226100.46866.ea     Document Type: Article

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