Contribution of the Periaqueductal Gray to the Suppression of Pain Affect Produced by Administration of Morphine Into the Intralaminar Thalamus of Rat

Journal of Pain

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 426-435

  Munn, Elizabeth M ^a   Harte, Steven E ^a   Lagman, Alexander ^a   Borszcz, George S ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

morphine; Nucleus parafascicularis; pain affect; ventrolateral periaqueductal gray; vocalizations

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; MORPHINE SULFATE; MUSCIMOL;

AFTERDISCHARGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NOCICEPTIVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; RAT; TAIL FLICK TEST; THALAMUS INTRALAMINAR NUCLEUS; THALAMUS PARAFASCICULAR NUCLEUS; VOCALIZATION;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; GABA AGONISTS; INTRALAMINAR THALAMIC NUCLEI; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHINE; MOVEMENT; MUSCIMOL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REFLEX; TAIL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 62649165858     PISSN: 15265900     EISSN: 15288447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2008.10.011     Document Type: Article

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