Chronic morphine exposure during puberty induces long-lasting changes in opioid-related mRNA expression in the mediobasal hypothalamus

Brain Research

Volumn 1190, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 186-192

  Byrnes, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug abuse; Kappa opioid receptor; Mu opioid receptor; Opiates; POMC; Prolactin

Indexed keywords

KAPPA OPIATE RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; MU OPIATE RECEPTOR; OPIATE; PROLACTIN; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; DRUG EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LACTATION; MALE; MORPHINE ADDICTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NULLIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN RELEASE; PUBERTY; PUERPERIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUCKLING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; LACTATION; MALE; MORPHINE; NARCOTICS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; PROLACTIN; RATS; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; REPRODUCTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL MATURATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 37549072696     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.11.018     Document Type: Article

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