Lithium attenuates pain-related behavior in a rat model of neuropathic pain: Possible involvement of opioid system

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 425-430

  Banafshe, Hamid R ^a   Mesdaghinia, Azam ^a   Arani, Meysam Noorani ^a   Ramezani, Mehdi Honarkar ^a   Heydari, Azhdar ^a   Hamidi, Gholam A ^a  

^a KASHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Lithium; Neuropathic pain; Opioid; Rat

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ALLODYNIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COLD ALLODYNIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; MECHANICAL ALLODYNIA; NERVE LIGATION; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SCIATIC NERVE; THERMAL HYPERALGESIA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HYPERALGESIA; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURALGIA; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SCIATIC NERVE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 80054916701     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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