Metyrapone and mifepristone reverse recognition memory loss induced by spontaneous morphine withdrawal in mice

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 102, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 377-381

  Mesripour, Azadeh ^a   Hajhashemi, Valiollah ^a   Rabbani, Mohammed ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; METYRAPONE; MIFEPRISTONE; MORPHINE;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; HABITUATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; INJECTIONS, SUBCUTANEOUS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; METYRAPONE; MICE; MIFEPRISTONE; MORPHINE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STEROID 11-BETA-HYDROXYLASE; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; TIME FACTORS;

MUS;

EID: 40849140894     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2007.00183.x     Document Type: Article

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