Chronic morphine exposure impairs short-term synaptic depression of geniculo-cortical visual pathway in vivo

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 410, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 228-233

  Wang, Hao ^a,b   Wei, Haiyang ^a,b   Chen, Bo ^a,b   Zhou, Yifeng ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Addiction; Geniculo cortical; Morphine; Rat; Short term synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPSE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 33750991623     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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