Antinociception induced by epidural motor cortex stimulation in naive conscious rats is mediated by the opioid system

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-70

  Fonoff, Erich Talamoni ^a,b   Dale, Camila Squarzoni ^b,c   Pagano, Rosana Lima ^b,c   Paccola, Carina Cicconi ^c   Ballester, Gerson ^a   Teixeira, Manoel Jacobsen ^a,b   Giorgi, Renata ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b HOSPITAL SÍRIO LIBANÊS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO BUTANTAN   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antinociception; Epidural electrical stimulation; Motor cortex; Opioid receptors; Pain; Rat

Indexed keywords

NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PAIN THRESHOLD; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TAIL FLICK TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 56749150920     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2008.07.027     Document Type: Article

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