Electrolytic lesion of the nucleus raphe magnus reduced the antinociceptive effects of bilateral morphine microinjected into the nucleus cuneiformis in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-355

  Haghparast, Abbas ^a   Ordikhani Seyedlar, Mehdi ^a   Ziaei, Maryam ^a,b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Antinociception; Electrolytic lesion; Morphine; Nucleus cuneiformis; Nucleus raphe magnus; Rat

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE SULFATE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN STEM; CANNULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEIFORM NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTROLYSIS; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MORPHINE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44549088895     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.072     Document Type: Article

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