Sucrose ingestion causes opioid analgesia

The intake of saccharin solutions for relatively long periods of time causes analgesia in rats, as measured in the hot-plate test, an experimental procedure involving supraspinal components. In order to investigate the effects of sweet substance intake on pain modulation using a different model, mal...

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Main Authors: F.N. Segato, C. Castro-Souza, E.N. Segato, S. Morato, N.C. Coimbra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 1997-08-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1997000800011