Chronic morphine exposure alters the dendritic morphology of pyramidal neurons in visual cortex of rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 418, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 227-231

  Li, Yanfei ^a,b   Wang, Hao ^a   Niu, Lei ^a   Zhou, Yifeng ^a  

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

^b ANHUI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dendrite spines; Golgi; Opiates; Plasticity; Pyramidal cells; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34247646916     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.03.023     Document Type: Article

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