TENS stimulates constitutive nitric oxide release via opiate signaling in invertebrate neural tissues

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Cheng, Jeanette ^a   Zhang, Chen ^a   Han, Ji Sheng ^b   Stefano, George B ^a   Kream, Richard M ^a,c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ganglia; Invertebrate; L NAME; Naloxone; Nervous system; Nitric oxide; Opiate; TENS

Indexed keywords

N(G) NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NALOXONE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; OPIATE;

AMPEROMETRY; ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INVERTEBRATE; MUSSEL; NERVOUS TISSUE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; GANGLIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHINE; MYTILUS EDULIS; NALOXONE; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURONS; NG-NITROARGININE METHYL ESTER; NITRIC OXIDE; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 34548380894     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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