A critical period in the supraspinal control of pain: Opioid-dependent changes in brainstem rostroventral medulla function in preadolescence

Pain

Volumn 153, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 775-783

  Hathway, Gareth J ^a,b   Vega Avelaira, David ^a   Fitzgerald, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Brainstem; Descending; Neonate; Opioid; Pain; Rat

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ENKEPHALIN[2 DEXTRO ALANINE 4 METHYLPHENYLALANINE 5 GLYCINE]; MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HINDLIMB; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NOCICEPTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); ENKEPHALIN, ALA(2)-MEPHE(4)-GLY(5)-; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROINJECTIONS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 84858698200     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2011.11.011     Document Type: Article

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