Abstract
Lanthanum chloride (La+3; 1 mol) was microcannulated into the ventral central gray of rats. The latency to tail-flick and to face-rub (both evoked by noxious heat) was elevated to about 250% of a sham control condition. Naloxone, 2 mg/kg, antagonized the analgesia, reducing the latencies to values not different, in most cases, from control values.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 189-191 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | Brain research |
Volume | 268 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 23 1983 |
Funding
This work was supported by NIH Grant GM 23696. We would like to thank ENDO Labs for donating the naloxone and R, Silvia, C. Porcel-lato and W. Seville for technical assistance.
Keywords
- analgesia
- central gray
- lanthanum
- naloxone
- opiate receptors
- pain
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Clinical Neurology
- Molecular Biology
- General Neuroscience
- Developmental Biology