Anabolic-androgenic steroid effects on nociception and morphine antinociception in male rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 500-508

  Tsutsui, K T ^a   Wood, R I ^b   Craft, R M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anabolic steroid; Androgen; Dihydrotestosterone; Pain; Stanozolol; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; FREUND ADJUVANT; MORPHINE SULFATE; STANOZOLOL; TESTOSTERONE;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINOCICEPTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC PAIN; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG POTENTIATION; HYPERALGESIA; INFLAMMATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEMINAL VESICLE; TESTIS;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; MALE; MORPHINE; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STANOZOLOL; TESTOSTERONE;

CARTHAMUS TINCTORIUS; RATTUS;

EID: 79959859841     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.04.023     Document Type: Article

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