Endogenous opioid activity in the anterior cingulate cortex is required for relief of pain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7264-7271

  Navratilova, Edita ^a   Xie, Jennifer Yanhua ^a   Meske, Diana ^a   Qu, Chaoling ^a   Morimura, Kozo ^a   Okun, Alec ^a   Arakawa, Naohisa ^a   Ossipov, Michael ^a   Fields, Howard L ^b   Porreca, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affective dimension of pain; Anterior cingulate cortex; Neuropathic pain; Nucleus accumbens; Postsurgical pain; Reward

Indexed keywords

CLONIDINE; DOPAMINE; ENDORPHIN; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE SULFATE; NALOXONE; OPIATE RECEPTOR; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CANNULATION; CONDITIONED PLACE PREFERENCE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTION; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAIN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SPINAL NERVE LIGATION INJURY; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; CINGULATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROCEDURES; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; GYRUS CINGULI; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTIONS; MORPHINE; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID;

EID: 84929359391     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3862-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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