Blockade of opioid receptors located in the rat nucleus cuneiformis reduced the antinociceptive responses of local but not systemic administration of morphine in formalin test

Basic and Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-19

  Haghparast, Abbas ^a   Ahmad Molaei, Leila ^a   Alizadeh, Amir Mohammad ^a   Azizi, Pegah ^a  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Formalin Test; Morphine; Naloxone; Nucleus Cuneiformis; Opioid Receptor; Pain

Indexed keywords

FORMALDEHYDE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANALGESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTINOCICEPTION; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEIFORM NUCLEUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MECHANISM; LOCAL THERAPY; MALE; MICROINJECTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PILOT STUDY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WISTAR RAT;

EID: 84894603351     PISSN: 2008126X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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