The effects of morphine on basal neuronal activities in the lateral and medial pain pathways

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 525, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-178

  Su, Yuan Lin ^a,b   Huang, Jin ^c   Wang, Ning ^a   Wang, Jin Yan ^a   Luo, Fei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Morphine; Spontaneous activity; Thalamus; The anterior cingulate cortex; The primary somatosensory cortex

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FRONTAL LOBE; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MORPHINE; NEURONS; PAIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 84865429992     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.032     Document Type: Article

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