Effects of Electrolytic Lesions of the Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray and Nucleus Raphe Magnus on Morphine – Induced Antinociception in the Nucleus Cuneiformi

A B S T R A C TIntroduction: The nucleus cuneiformis (NCF) and ventrolateral periaqueductal gray (vlPAG), two adjacent areas, mediate the central pain modulation and project to the nucleus raphe magnus (NRM). Methods: This study examined whether the antinociceptive effect of morphine microinjected i...

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Main Authors: Abbas Haghparast, Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar, Maryam Ziaei, Pegah Azizi, Mohammad Ebrahimzadeh-Sarvestani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 2010-08-01
Series:Basic and Clinical Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://bcn.iums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-40&slc_lang=en&sid=1