Sexual differentiation of rat reproductive versus opioid antinociceptive systems

Gender Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue PART 2, 2009, Pages 208-224

  Craft, Rebecca M ^a   Ulibarri, Catherine ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

analgesia; females; morphine; pain; sex differences

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE SULFATE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; ANALGESIC AGENT; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; FEMINIZATION; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENITAL SYSTEM; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADECTOMY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE DEPENDENCE; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VIRILIZATION; WEIGHT GAIN; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; PAIN RECEPTOR; REPRODUCTION;

ANALGESICS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; NOCICEPTORS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 65249180143     PISSN: 15508579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genm.2009.03.003     Document Type: Article

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